Leah Angstman is a transplanted Michigander, unsure of what feels like home anymore. She is the recent winner of the Loudoun Library Foundation Poetry Award and serves as Editor-in-Chief for Alternating Current Press and a reviewer for Publishers Weekly. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Los Angeles Review of Books, Tupelo Quarterly, Electric Literature, Midwestern Gothic, Atticus Review, and Shenandoah. She can be found at leahangstman.com and on Twitter @leahangstman.
Not in your echoing womb, to scream at you across your fields to wake up, not part of your denial that Earth is burning, dehydrated, suffocating on itself— I stood…