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What Made Us
by Lily Starr


​Everything we could paint brown     
with all the dirt in my hometown     
 
boots even when it’s hot out            
black tshirt        fatass         
 
nobody where I’m from minds                                    
a slick back        puddleshoe        ​angelface       
 
my uncle who pushed his girlfriend              
down the stairs on our family vacation                                
 
hole in the big toe of your ten pack sock      
big enough for a prayer stone to fall out of        rolled-up towel pillow                              
 
dirty tank top under your work shirt
lighter on the stove                cold sore                             
 
four rings missing from the shower curtain
table with the block of wood under its wobbly        leg                           
 
spaghetti three meals a day        silver minivan         like a minnow                        
ranch dressing                                stained ceilings
 
stolen office muffins in a white bag        on the counter                                            
 
my mother’s simple hands
the groundhog my dog killed                        out back                       
 
it wanted to live more than I did

Lily Starr is an eager and passionate student of poetry from Cecil County, Maryland. She earned her BA in English from Washington College in the spring of 2017 and is currently pursuing her MFA at Florida International University in Miami. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in The Journal, Small Orange, SWWIM, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. 
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