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By Molly Rose Quinn ·

Changeling (Cryptozoology)

She calls them changelings because they are they are three little kids

They are tied and drowned and the damage unto was thought satan actually turtles

Turtles as in the prehistoric cryptids which retreat as we walk along the lake

Pastoral if it weren’t for my friend’s mom’s car circling

Or maybe the changelings are the older boys

The space occupied by satan where a brutality occurs

Or the space made empty

Heard tell the new necropastoral is here now

Does that mean the old eroticism is not profane

Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth

Or the truths as far as the movies

In exchange for three boys they offered three boys

Or maybe it was us who offered

Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own

Ah I miss the simple life the sweet little mudpit and the flowers the flowers

 

Life Event

Do I want to be alive it begins with a question. Scarfing elicits a trapdoor. Empathy for your consideration it begins with a household, six children, 1950s, a woman named B. To awaken a life first I must flatten it, a woman, a porchdeck, an above-ground pool, and the little ghostly St. Francis in the yard, visible over three black trash bags of leaves (poplar; oval, and wet). You died in the same place you were born. No. Some other place a house looted after the hurricane they burned it to the ground. When we say they we know what we say we are a Louisiana wilderness copped, despised like propaganda. That was the beginning of your life your mother’s life a woman called B. The two of you lived together at the brink. Were you a woman these are the questions was your mysticism indecent or not. A death, one, could be so precise, so fugitive as to have no meaning at all. This is the hope that one devastation can matter only to me.

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Molly Rose Quinn

Molly Rose Quinn is a poet living in Brooklyn and the Director of Public Programming at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, The Offing, Everyday Genius, Two Serious Ladies, The Agriculture Reader, and other places. Her interviews and criticism appear in The Atlas Review, The L Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail, and she is a contributor to Scout poetry review. She is a fiction committee member for the Brooklyn Book Festival and co-organizer of the Moby-Dick Marathon NYC. She was raised in Memphis, Tennessee.

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