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Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018) and the chapbook St. Trigger, selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright Scholar and Cave Canem Fellow, Aaron’s poems have appeared in journals including Boston Review, FENCE, and New York Times Magazine. Aaron is currently a PhD student at Washington University St. Louis in the Comparative Literature Program.
I found a border in my body, slipped my fingers over
its simple seam until
I felt its stitches unwind and open. Out come scattered
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