Erin Belieu was born and raised in Nebraska and is the author of five poetry collections, including Slant Six, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, and Come Hither Honeycomb (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). Belieu is cofounder of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and the founder of the Writers Resist network. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Houston and for the Lesley University low-residency MFA program in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In Airports

by Erin Belieu

It was the season for    
weeping   in airports  for walking    

and bleeding   in airports—  


the white corridors         their rocking
chairs         the ghosts   and trains   and strangers  
all overcast   the windows
People on couch
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