Jaimee Hills was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1979 and earned her BA and MA in Writing Seminars from The Johns Hopkins University, and her MFA from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A former editor of Backwards City Review, she now lives and writes in Durham, North Carolina. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Best New Poets, the Mississippi Review, and elsewhere.
When they unearthed my body, I was precious,
not for my pretty sapphires, which I lacked,
but because life lay still in me. Precautions
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S is for sin. I knew what we were in for.
How could we exist without an exit?
He called me his apostrophe, a she, his little rib.
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The monoglot might slip on guano-
toh-moh. You tell dogs git, and gung-ho
handy types'll get her done.
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