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Legs

how in her looking
back to hold 
memory close Lot’s wife

did not worry, rooted
to the ground by
frozen pillared legs
  
strange desert mermaid
 
of coming winds to
sweep salted flesh 
away to nothing.
 
disappeared 
 
long before being
turned to salt she
 
had never
even owned
 
a name.
Picture
William Henry Fox Talbot. Three Sheets of Gauze, Crossed Obliquely, about 1852-1857. Photographic engraving. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. 

Hope Wabuke is the author of the chapbooks The Leaving and Movement No.1: Trains. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A contributing editor for The Root, her work has also been published in The Guardian, Guernica, The North American Review, Salamander Literary Journal, Ruminate Literary Journal, African Voices Magazine, Literary Mama, Salon, Gawker, Ozy, Creative Nonfiction, The Hairpin, The Feminist Wire, The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Magazine, Ms. Magazine online, and others. Hope has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Times Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women Writers, the Awesome Foundation, and the Voices of Our Nations (VONA) Arts Foundation.
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