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adrift

Jude Marr

my fingers in brine
thick with algae

my gray skin
under a copper

my gaze follows
and I hope

ghost
hollow bones

I wait for

fingers
still

bubbles
orbit

glitter fish
less

groans
sing

night

Jude Marr is originally from Scotland. She is currently a teaching fellow at Georgia College, where she has recently completed a poetry MFA. Jude's work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Cortland Review, r.kv.ry., Black Heart Magazine, and Cider Press Review, among others. She is also an assistant editor at Ghost Ocean.















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ISSUE TWO: Sly Early Stem

Jude Marr
   adrift
   flight—

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