kneed and knocked out? Easier
to say aloud I want you, open
the windows to the wind at night.
Emily Lake Hansen (she/her) is the author of Home and Other Duty Stations (Kelsay Books 2020) and the chapbook The Way the Body Had to Travel (dancing girl press 2014). Her poetry has appeared in Atticus Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Rust + Moth, the Shore, and Up the Staircase Quarterly among others. She is a PhD student at Georgia State University and serves as the poetry editor for Minerva Rising Press.
image: D.T. Robbins