Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Melissa Crowe
we make out the shape of what’s coming, / hold very still until the footsteps turn,
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Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) and Lo (University of Iowa Press, 2023), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, Image, and Poetry Northwest, among other journals, and she coordinates the MFA program at UNCW, where she teaches poetry and publishing.