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Melissa Helton

Melissa Helton lives, writes, and teaches in southeast Kentucky. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Shenandoah, Still: The Journal, Appalachian Review, and more. Her chapbooks include Inertia: A Study (2016, Finishing Line Press) and Forward Through The Interval (2021, Workhorse).
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The Teenager Has Gone Witchy (and other poems)

When I come upstairs to ask her to do dishes, her room 
smells of cedar smoke, slightly skunky, like pot’s half-brother.

Melissa HeltonSeptember 2021April 2022

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