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    The Bones Below
    The Bones Below
    The Bones Below
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    The Bones Below

    By Sierra DeMulder

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    A clear voice of her generation, Sierra DeMulder’s writing offers a gritty, sincere perspective on the subtle joys and modern pains of living. Her debut collection The Bones Below delicately carries the reader to a place of brutal, beautiful honesty. DeMulder’s personal revelations complete a touching portrait of the young artist and her fearless exploration of the human experience, bare in its rawest and most tender forms.

    DeMulder possesses the most important quality a young writer can have, a unique voice. That voice exploded onto the national poetry scene. Sierra uses subtlety and tension the way photographers use angle. She will eat your heart out with a spoon. -Karen Finneyfrock, “Ceremony for the Choking Ghost"

    DeMulder is intensely personal. - Huffington Post

    violently passionate and sweet, deftly moving between the two modes. - The Lamron, New Journal of SUNY Geneseo
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWrite Bloody Publishing
    Release dateOct 1, 2018
    ISBN9781935904601
    The Bones Below
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    Sierra DeMulder

    Sierra DeMulder is the author of four other collections of poetry (The Bones Below, New Shoes on a Dead Horse, We Slept Here, Today Means Amen) and the co-host of the relationship advice podcast Just Break Up. She lives in Albany, NY with her wife and daughter.

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    The Bones Below - Sierra DeMulder

    The Bones Below

    a collection of poetry

    by Sierra deMulder

    Write Bloody Publishing

    America’s Independent Press

    Long Beach, CA

    writebloody.com

    The Bones Below

    by Sierra deMulder

    Write Bloody Publishing ©2010.

    1st printing.

    Printed in USA

    The Bones Below Copyright 2010.

    All Rights Reserved.

    Published by Write Bloody Publishing.

    Printed in Long Beach, CA USA.

    No part of this book may be used or performed without written consent from the author, if living, except for critical articles or reviews.

    Cover Designed by Joshua Grieve

    Interior Layout by Lea C. Deschenes

    Edited by Derrick Brown, shea M gauer, Saadia Byram, Michael Sarnowski

    Proofread by Sarah Kay

    Type set in Helvetica Neue and Bell MT

    To contact the author, send an email to writebloody@gmail.com

    For Brian & my sisters

    "And then the day came, when the risk

    to remain tight in a bud was more painful

    than the risk it took to Blossom."

    —Anaïs Nin

    The Bones Below

    At First Sight

    When she stops kissing you

    with her mouth open,

    find the screw driver.

    Buy a newly cut shank of beef.

    Leave so much blood in the kitchen

    she has to ask what happened.

    When she no longer calls you baby,

    hide all the silverware

    between the couch cushions.

    Send her there to sleep.

    If she does not complain,

    let the sinks in the bathroom overflow.

    Bake the wedding photos

    in the dryer. Stand in

    the middle of your flood.

    Call her name backwards, forwards.

    Wave your arms like your chest is a runway.

    She is the plane you are crashing.

    When she does not reach

    for you, pretend

    it is the first time

    you’ve met.

    Misplacing Their Ring Fingers

    The summer my parents lost their marriage

    like so many magnets kicked under the refrigerator,

    my cousin and I named trees after babysitters

    we never had. We lived in our bathing suits,

    washed our hair in pond water and sunburned.

    (Once, my mother slammed the screen

    door so hard, I comforted the hinges.) I taught

    my cousin how to make face paint out of spit

    and dirt. She taught me to swim underwater.

    (Once, I found my father weeping on the bed

    they did not share anymore.) On the green carpet

    of summer, we played until the cicadas, dressed

    in dusk, called us to dinner. We kissed goodnight

    and I ran home

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