Anders Carlson-Wee, a finalist in Narrative’s Eighth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of Dynamite, winner of the 2015 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, and The Low Passions (Norton, 2019). He received Ninth Letter’s Poetry Award as well as New Delta Review’s Editors’ Choice Prize, and holds a BA from Fairhaven College and an MFA in poetry from Vanderbilt University. His work has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading series. Carlson-Wee lives in Minneapolis, where he serves as a McKnight Foundation Creative Writing Fellow.

Ms. Range Wants to See Me in It

by Anders Carlson-Wee
Jackson, Tennessee


Less the Lord crossed my eyes in the night
your shoulders are the twins to my Kyle’s.
Let’s see how it buttons up. Always was clumsy
with a button, even before my arthritis.

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