Julia Story
Julie the Astonishing (How She DIdn't Leave the Bed for 120 Days
And another thing she read about were trees,
how they talked to each other underground, all different
species, using fungus as a conductor.
Dead people came.
A voice said “Good morning”
clearly in her ear.
She turned onto her side and saw black birds on the edge
of her vision, erased them, and filled the empty space
with other birds who were made of paper.
She turned onto her other side, cut open the horse,
and climbed inside and slept.
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Julia Story is the author of Post Moxie (Sarabande Books, 2010), winner of the Ploughshares 2010 John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and a chapbook, The Trapdoor (dancing girl press, 2013). Her recent work can be read at Sixth Finch, Salt Hill, and Gulf Coast, and she is 2016 recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She teaches writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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