Black Tourmaline
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Do not come back, my brother says.
Do not come back, my brother says. Sunset makes me cold. I walk a bridge toward it, the membranous sky, air on the tongue of my hunger. To be lonely like the sound of leaves, I walk over the leaves. The landmass thickens as I forest myself. I hear a voice crackle through my phone and I look for a moon, white roan wake of my life, a dusted rim, Depression glass on which I learn the word salvage in an earlier decade. I have left so much world behind, one star whispers. I await the inevitable figure. He steps over the limbs with a gift. Darkness like trapped rainwater I thus behold a threshold. It is clear what I must do to receive him. And the gift in his hand I must open my mouth to take. |
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Natalie Eilbert is the author of Indictus, winner of Noemi Press’s 2016 Poetry Contest, slated for publication in late 2017, as well as the debut poetry collection, Swan Feast (Bloof Books, 2015). She is the recipient of the 2016 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is serving a one-year academic appointment. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, jubilat, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of The Atlas Review.
Bahar Yurukoglu was born in 1981 in Washington D.C. She lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. She earned her MFA in 2011 from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston and her BFA in 2003 from the School of Visual Arts, New York City. Selected solo shows include Flow Through, ARTER, Istanbul (2016), Self-Titled, Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, Istanbul (2014), Melting North, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (2013). Two-person and group exhibitions include Intimate Horizons, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR (2014), the 2013 Biennial, Decordova Museum, and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, MA. She has been artist in residence at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (2013), the Arctic Circle (2015), and in 2017 with the Clipperton Project in Antarctica. Learn more at www.iambahar.com.