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Sarah Crossland

Sarah Crossland
Sarah Crossland has poems published or forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Shenandoah, FIELD, TriQuarterly, The Iowa Review, A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, and other journals. She currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is at work writing a book of poems about the Romanov daughters and Slavic folklore called The Winter Palace. Her website is sarahcrossland.com.

La Mancha, Afterwards

By Sarah Crossland
Poetry•Vol. XXIX No. 1 (Spring 2016)

Every night I hear the windmills   walking. Behind the blades, the sun closes like a black   eye vesseled like an insect’s storm-   torn wing. That’s beating in my head. In sleep, my sheets   become the coat of armor   that the knight of mirrors wore: plackart, crest, and collar   the… [Read More]

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