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Megan Merchant

Megan Merchant lives in the tall pines of Prescott, AZ. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Gravel Ghosts (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), The Dark’s Humming (2015 Lyrebird Award Winner, Glass Lyre Press, 2017), four chapbooks, and a forthcoming children’s book with Philomel Books. She was awarded the 2016-2017 COG Literary Award, judged by Juan Felipe Herrera, the Poet Laureate of the United States.

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Holding the Mountain Together/Before you Climb

I will glue the mountain cracks with wildflowers and flayed feathers, place my palm on the sun-stroked face to affirm the ridge’s jaw hasn’t slackened. I will learn to mimic the raven’s kraa, to retreat snakes back into their skins, …

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