Hannah Bishop: I Will Never Be a Galaxy

Or Current Bagel Lover

rain sounds like a car pulling into the driveway

then i remember i live alone

i put dust in my tea

watch it swirl and know

i have made a galaxy

Flay Woman

you want so badly for me to be fractal

but i will never be a galaxy

or algae or even a fault line

so take my skin

forgive where it is too loose or too tight

you may hang it on a hook at the end of the day

and wait for nothing to grow from it

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Hannah Bishop is an MFA poetry candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is originally from New Jersey. She works in a gastroenterology office but usually prefers reading poems to looking at pictures of intestines. Hannah especially enjoys sweets, cartoons, fun facts, and her dog, Teek. Her work has appeared in Noble / Gas Qtrly and Seneca Review.