[Crwt-undergrad-info] Fwd: “Poshmark” by Erin Marie Lynch
Allison Hedge Coke
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Wed Nov 12 11:04:20 PST 2025
Congratulations to Erin Marie Lynch!
How nearly can I / inhabit someone
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How nearly can I
inhabit someone
else’s body? I don’t
have any money.
Prostrate, scrolling
through other people’s
clothes, I’m wearing
the tearable pink dress
I met you in. It came
taped up in a box
that smelled like house
and once held water filters.
These truncated mannequins
I imagine angels appear as—
headless torsos, voices
emanating from necks—
scare me like you did.
Still I let divine will
fill me like a windsock,
commencing a delirious
motion. Now my love is a line
pulled by no current.
Thanks for your purchase!
wrote the woman in Queens
on scalloped cardstock.
Pulling her dress over
my head, light sieved
through sheer silk
and I saw the threads
binding my delight.
Copyright © 2025 by Erin Marie Lynch. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on
November 12, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.
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“I think about clothes a lot, and I think about love a lot. What I don’t
have, what others have, and what I want. Women be shopping … [but] we’re
despised for the expression of desire that is required of us, that
constrains us. I despise myself for it. Shopping wastes time; so does
looking for love. It all costs. Novelty yields only brief pleasure. Raised
Calvinist, I surreptitiously continue to believe that something
irresistible will compel me. Still, online resale marketplaces—glutted,
corporatized, alienating—can be surprisingly intimate. We ship beautiful
things to each other, and they arrive smelling like us.”
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a direct descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (Ihánktoŋwan Dakota)
and the author of* Removal Acts* (Graywolf Press, 2023). Lynch is the
recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts, MacDowell, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Helene Wurlitzer
Foundation of New Mexico, Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po), and Hugo
House. A presidential postdoctoral fellow in creative writing at the
University of California, Riverside, she lives in Los Angeles on Gabrieliño
Tongva land.
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