Heidi Lynn Staples (1971) is a U.S. experimental writer. Her debut collection, Guess Can Gallop (New Issues, 2004) won the New Issues Poetry Prize.[citation needed] She is also the author of Dog Girl (Ahsahta, 2007)and Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake, A Memoir, which includes her illustrations (Caketrain, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in the Best American Poetry, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, Women's Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Along with the poet Amy King, she co-founded Poets for Living Waters, an international response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Piedmont College in Athens, Georgia. In the fall of 2014, she will join the faculty of the University of Alabama.
Is a whole in one a golf marriage?
Going the distance. A gopher marriage?
I don't know. An agnostic marriage?
No. An antagonistic marriage?
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How nice it is to be broken!
Because really, it's no abuse prettifying, one isn't au pair of sex till
broken
into is one?
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What makes a man, makes amends,
She said, as she pooled the deep's up higher.
What wakes a woman, wakes the ends
Of the birth, he said, as he pooled balm.
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I was on a fragmented seeming toward
like a little child with no documents inside.
We'd just fallen through place, the far one,
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