Corey Van Landingham
A Habitable Space
scientists have it better
at the end of the day they
can actually touch something
where the word exhale means
nothing nor boundary
acreage asylum how can
one have sympathy for
an exoplanet where no one will
bend toward a neighbor’s garden
to pick a lime from the tree
where legend does not have it
I’m tired of all the not-saying
what is seen is not what is felt
or the drone would never
Corey Van Landingham reads “A Habitable Space”
Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens, forthcoming from Tupelo Press. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.