Kathy Nilsson

Kathy Nilsson's poems have been published in Ploughshares, Post Road, Volt, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Miss America

At dawn when traffic lights burn like roses
I feel pity akin to love
For the little deviants of wild
Turkeys skulking around this city.

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Furniture of the World

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