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issue 2: ROAD TRIP

midwest sandstorm

ROSA CANALES
March sticks to us in pieces of peeling skin, reminders 
Of how, in that two-door blue Rabbit, we drove from 
The Ohio sleet on red and blue lines, rumbling along 
Edges and curves we had never felt before, the grass 
Watered silky with sweet tea and Southern drawl. 
Burrowing into the sand, we became pale diner grits 
Melting under a dark blue sky already sick with the slow
 
Drizzle of mucous, but in our bright coats, we devoured 
Frozen pizza and warm Bud Lite, tumbling in and out 
Of that salty high-speed washer in a refusal of the flat 
Towns where our Grandmothers scrapbooked their dying 
Memories, until we were flung back with gold specks
Still stuck in our hair and ears, blazing sandstorms left
To saunter and shake their hips across a musty Midwest carpet.

Rosa Canales is a recent graduate of Denison University. She currently lives in Columbus, OH.
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