Nora Claire Miller
CHAPTER 27
so I became unrealistic and thought of days
of how life on earth was a vanishing experiment
in deciding or pointer fingers, as the videos
next door yell into their beers or their cooking,
LIFE ON EARTH IS INTOLERABLE! so acting
becomes dangerous, as does cooking, each of us making
our own omelettes, in our own apartments,
every sunday, here on earth. they say life on earth
is a big disappointment. but I can tell you
all the teeth I have: incisor. incisor. premolar. incisor.
molar. premolar. molar. incisor. molar. premolar.
incisor. premolar. premolar. canine. canine.
incisor. molar. incisor. premolar. canine. molar. molar.
molar. premolar. molar. incisor. premolar. canine.
NORA CLAIRE MILLER is a poet from New York City whose work appears in Bat City Review, Gigantic Sequins, Hobart, Tagvverk, and TYPO, and whose chapbook LULL (2020) was the winner of the 2019 Ghost Proposal chapbook contest. Miller earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
ISSUE TEN features poetry by David Baker, Leila Chatti, Adam Clay, Cynthia Cruz, Lightsey Darst, Melissa Ginsburg, Johannes Göransson, John Kinsella, Joanna Klink, Mark Levine, Cate Marvin, Sara Lupita Olivares, January Gill O’Neil, Robert Ostrom, Allan Peterson, Kevin Prufer, Dean Rader, Natasha Rao, Elizabeth Robinson, Martha Silano, Stella Wong, and Julia Wong Kcomt; fiction by Amber Caron, Sarah Rose Etter, and Lee Upton; nonfiction by Lesley Jenike and Arra Lynn Ross; a film essay by Mee Ok Icaro; Mary Ruefle in conversation with Mark Wunderlich; and a selection of erasures and collages by Mary Ruefle.