Raye Hendrix if the ceiling is not a ceiling but a sky if the plaster popcorn protrusions are stars if the walls of this white room are not boundaries but low-hanging clouds if the gift of the flower is blue if linoleum does not mean floor but field where each speck of gray is a dandelion gone to seed if there is only one way out that dark hallway then I will bear it this hard living I will live as hard as I can and while I live the seeding dandelions are wishes or if not wishes prayers and if prayers then the lonely door and hallway are the mouth and throat of god and if the gift of the flower is blue it’s because I have swallowed everything red Raye Hendrix is a writer from Alabama. The author of the chapbooks Every Journal Is A Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press) and Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press), she is also the winner of the 2019 Keene Prize for Literature and Southern Indiana Review’s 2018 Patricia Aakhus Award. Raye's work has been featured in Poetry Daily, 32 Poems, Shenandoah, Cimarron Review, Poetry Northwest, Zone 3, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere, and they are the Poetry Editor of Press Pause Press. Raye holds degrees from Auburn University, an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and she is a PhD candidate at the University of Oregon. You can find more of their work at rayehendrix.com.
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