Elyse Fenton is the author of the poetry collection Clamor, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second manuscript, Sweet Insurgent, won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. Born and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, she earned a BA from Reed College and an MFA from the University of Oregon. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.

Independence Day and Other Poems

by Elyse Fenton


Independence Day

And the ear’s a house with the siding ripped off.

I blacken a skillet of pork dumplings while fire-

works fritter their insect cells against the blinds.

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