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SUBPASTORAL

By

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett

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NEED CONTRACT

Lift a log and salamanders—
adults with bulbous heads

and slinky babies—burrow 
back into wet earth. Another,

and a trio of skinks freezes 
as you crouch above them. 

A third reveals a skittering
glut of spiders. It only takes 

a modest revolution to enter 
the underworld, peopled not 

by shadows, but by more life. 
And so it waits—patient, 

patient—to envelop us all 
in the muck of unbecoming, 

make music of dirt spilling 
from fallen-open mouths.

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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of three chapbooks, most recently Harm’s Way forthcoming from dancing girl press. In 2018, she was a finalist for both the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry from Tupelo Press. Her poetry can be found in Third Coast, Granta, Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of Foglifter Journal and lives in sunny Oakland, California.

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