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Rachel Mindell is a queer writer living in Tucson. Her third chapbook, "May/be," was just released by Tammy. Individual poems have appeared (or will) in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Foglifter, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere. She works for the University of Arizona Poetry Center and Submittable.


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Heights
 
You could come lose
or get tight, feel loaded
 
or float on by. You might
show juiced or leave faded.
 
The room purple to
your dress is brown.
 
If you were lifted you
were lucky on the shoulders
 
of the night. If you’ve gotten
down, you’re getting
 
hotter, higher so when
the music stops, find a chair
 
for your head, a shade
for your staircase straw.
 
It sips and
so it slips.
 
Escapes are for fires,
ladders for treed cats.
 
If you roll with it,
beware the glass.
 
You’ll stick. Your top
all tipsy and your legs
 
of liquid brick. Courage
is a crapshoot, not that you
 
won’t find it but where you
might choose to let fall.
 
First-floor windows
are still quite tall.
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