13 Images from the Dark Land: Crumb Vietnam Wordplay

1. Agent orange moon

2. Rat-a-tat pillowing

3. Two-step snakes squeezing stars

4. Anonymous child spills

5. Ghost teeth in the sky

6. Polka-dot mine pops

7. Barking machetes

8. Tunnels of future fathers

9. Mosquito largess

10. Napalm toe bones

11. Songs etched from dis-glory

12. Dumb hot angels

13. Death idling in the darkness

Corinne Stanley

Corinne Stanley has published a poetry collection, Breathe into the Knowing, and a chapbook, Down into the Upward Golden. In addition, she translated and published Spanish poet Esther Bendala Pavón’s Silence of the Forests/El silencio del bosque. Her poems have appeared in Feminist Studies, The House of Zolo,, The San Diego Annual, North American Review, and Quartet Journal. Most recently her translation “We Dream Every Night” was longlisted for the Deep Vellum 2026 Best Literary Translations anthology. Stanley is a memoirist (La tercera luz: A Poetic Journey Through Spain), and a collage artist. She resides in Iowa City. 

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