Tyler Mills is the author of Tongue Lyre, winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. She received an MFA from the University of Maryland and a PhD from the University of Illinois–Chicago and is an assistant professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University.

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by Tyler Mills

Chicago Pile-1

I wound through the Gothic castle
                                      buildings in the university of stained glass,
its windows open in early July


                                      neutrally through metal frames
to allow in the sound of electric tools
                                      biting around some white petunias


men with gloves handled like marble
                                      sculptures of minor gods.
People on couch
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