Advice on the farm

Caroline Crew


of all the things that are lesser these tunes are thinning most hello small sleeping animals how did you get entwined in my knees? when I left them my legs I thought they’d wander to the banks of some river like every river are you here to teach me? what is so difficult to tell me is it the miracle hidden outside? the breaths say be in the world   or be against it


CAROLINE CREW is between Old England and New England. Her work has appeared in Salt Hill, PANK, Sixth Finch and elsewhere. A chapbook, small colours like wild tongues, is forthcoming from dancing girl press. Otherwise she’s an MFA candidate at UMass Amherst and edits ILK journal.