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Laura’s Vibrator
by Claire Skinner

                                                      “I'm nearly up on the moon and didn't need a rocket.” –Patsy Cline
 

Imagine a man     a sailor
on a black boat
 
throwing an anchor into the night
 
and Marilyn Monroe twisting
in the sky     pushing
 
her white dress down as I
 
take off my clothes
walk into the great
 
lake and die

Claire Skinner is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and was a Zell Postgraduate Fellow in creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner and The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide (University of Arizona Press, 2016). She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with a husband, a cat, and lots of leggy plants.
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December 2017
Monsoon Laura by Claire Skinner
ISSN 2157-8079
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