Every garage door in Ohio is open.
And all the UPS drivers
look ready to strip
for a bachelorette party.
My daughter chases taxidermied rabbits
in the grass lot next door.
The municipal worker in her neon vest
sells tickets to use the excavator.
I write birds
with a question mark
in my notebook,
but it’s not a question.
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Matt McBride‘s work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from Action, Spectacle, Collidescope, Conduit, The Cortland Review, Figure 1, Guernica, Impossible Task, The Laurel Review, The Missouri Review, The Rupture, Rust+Moth, and Zone 3 among others. He is the author of one full-length poetry collection, City of Incandescent Light, published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018, and four chapbooks. His most recent, Prerecorded Weather, co-written with Noah Falck, won the 2022 James Tate Prize and is available at SurVision Books.
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image: Emily Rozanski
Rejection Letters 