Throw Yourself into the Prairie

"You won't want to stop reading this other-worldly good book."—Dara Wier

11 is 2 bodies and these 2 bodies
want to crash into each other,
but there is no ambulance.
It is a nook of totem poles
on a stubby road and also
2 modest giraffes peering
at something unruly in the grass.

Francesca Chabrier is the author of the chapbook The Axioms (Pilot Books, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Action Yes , jubilat , notnostrums , Sixth Finch , and Sink Review . She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.