Brittney Scott received an MFA from Hollins University in Virginia. A finalist in the 2013 Narrative 30 Below Contest, she is also the 2012 recipient of the Joy Harjo Prize for Poetry and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. She teaches creative writing to adults, Girl Scouts, and high-risk youth at Richmond’s Visual Arts Center.

Two Poems

by Brittney Scott

Light Pollution

We are a million years homeless,

maybe more, maybe closer

to when we burned


our first body, some soul’s charred bones

collapsed back in a damp cave.

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