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Emily Polson
The Chatter of Stars
At night, on the dock
the stars twinkle
like nodes in a brain
synapses fire
send signals
across space
I sit for a while
with ruddy cheeks
eavesdropping
Emily Polson is a Pushcart-nominated writer whose poems have appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Epoch Press, The Daily Drunk, and elsewhere. She earned a BFA in creative writing from Belhaven University and is pursuing an MFA at the City College of New York. Originally from Iowa, she now lives in Brooklyn and works as an editor at Scribner. You can find her on Twitter @emilycpolson.
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