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Brandi Nicole Martin’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Missouri Review, the Cincinnati Review, Narrative Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, Bennington Review, and Willow Springs, among others. Her nonfiction is forthcoming in Boulevard. She was a runner-up for the 2020 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize from the Missouri Review, and she is a PhD candidate at Florida State University.
Look at my heartbeat / and its consequence, / that cup warm on my palm
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