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Heather Christle

Heather Christle is the author of four poetry collections: Heliopause and What Is Amazing, both published by Wesleyan University Press, and The Trees The Trees and The Difficult Farm, both published by Octopus Books. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Believer, and elsewhere, and she is currently writing a non-fiction book about crying. She lives in a small Ohio village, which she sometimes leaves to teach.

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Poetry

The day cracks itself
on my forehead, like

an egg.

Heather Christle
Poetry
Heather Christle
Poetry
Heather Christle

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