Before That
“Before wishes they were trees. / Three flat rooted pines under her breath,”
Nicole Santalucia is the author of The Book of Dirt (NYQ Books, 2020), Spoiled Meat (Headmistress Press, 2018), and Because I Did Not Die (Bordighera Press, 2015). She is a recipient of the Charlotte Mew Chapbook Prize and the Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as The Best American Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, The Normal School, North American Review, and others. She teaches at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.
“Before wishes they were trees. / Three flat rooted pines under her breath,”