Note Pressed into Your Palm
if a body
takes shape
when spoken
to of for
then why
name it why
not leave
why not
never think
on it at all
Alyse Knorr is an assistant professor of English at Regis University and, since 2016, co-editor of Switchback Books. Her most recent poetry collection, Mega-City Redux, was selected by Olena Kalytiak Davis as winner of the 2017 Green Mountains Review Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the poetry collections Copper Mother and Annotated Glass, the non-fiction book Super Mario Bros. 3, and two poetry chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others.