I’ve said before it’s like getting home—/
been sitting with my book and wine and fraction/
of attention always scanning for more of the habit-pain/
Author
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Emma Aylor is the author of Close Red Water, winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, AGNI, Poetry Northwest, the Yale Review Online, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in Lubbock, Texas.