You Can’t Always Get What You Want by Claire Askew
It might be a good start / if you knew what what you want / was. If you stopped trying / to do the right thing […]
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Interview: Claire Askew
Paige Smith and Sonali Misra interview Claire Askew, poet and author of All the Hidden Truths. […]
All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
Above the matte Astroturf of the high-school playing fields, and above the ponytailed heads of the girl footballers, moths and midges birled and hung. At this distance, they looked like flecks of glitter swimming through liquid. […]
Knife by Claire Askew
You’re a half-shut knife, the woman / in the neat scarf says. I’m looking / at the miniature bolts that hold / her natty glasses in the shape / of her face. […]
Thorn Field by Claire Askew
Tomorrow he’s leaving for good. / You know where he’s going, but don’t / belong there – couldn’t show up / without scaring him. […]
