Nomi Stone is the author of the poetry collection Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly, 2008), an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Warren Wilson and a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Columbia. Poems appear or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Memorious, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish Poetry, at The Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She is currently researching and writing Kill Class, a book of poetry based on two years of fieldwork within combat simulations in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America.
“The wound….occurred suddenly, invisibly; it came out of nowhere.” Rooms in the woods help you prepare to hold it together for whatever comes from off center. Mewling of goats, villagers crying in their language for water. The chest opening call to pray de- leafs, snapping you when missiles follow. If your body is an animal, […]