Sapphic Dream

Mag Gabbert

       we’ve made the hot   -el room hum     -id from our show  -eryou: lost        in a sea           -rch for me                       -teors                  as I was               -h as          -hore       —unraveling hem               -isphere, come                               -t, light as a ball                                                -erina’s spin                                                                 -e—                                                once again im                                                -mersed in                                        the cove                            -rs, then on                 -ce again again             -st our sin             -k         in my heave            -n my                 -th                            this                          port                    -rait of                 a decade             -nce: you            as we          both rot             -ate              the tow                 -els get so                      -aked, so we                                              -t                                                —make                                     me a vow                                -el—                                   tell me no                                          -w those must                                                                be us                                                               -eless

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Mag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, which won the Charles B. Wheeler Prize and the Writer’s League of Texas Book Award in Poetry; the chapbook The Breakup, which won the Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Award; and the chapbook Minml Poems. Her work can also be found in Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review Daily, Copper Nickel, Guernica, and in many other journals and magazines. Mag is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Discovery Award from 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center, and fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, and Poetry at Round Top. She has an MFA from UC Riverside and a PhD from Texas Tech, and she currently teaches at Southern Methodist University and serves as the Poet Laureate of Dallas, Texas.

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Black Warrior Review

51.1

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

The University of Alabama

Editor
Chinaecherem Obor

Managing Editor
Darby Power

Poetry Editor
Alayna Powell

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Black Warrior Review is named for the river that borders the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Established in 1974 by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing, BWR is the oldest continuously-run literary journal produced by graduate students in the United States.

BWR publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and art twice a year. Contributors include Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners alongside emerging writers. Work appearing in BWR has been reprinted in the Pushcart Prize series, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, New Stories from the South, and other anthologies.

Black Warrior Review is indexed in Humanities International Complete, the Book Reviews Index, and the MLA International Bibliography. ISSN: 0193-6301

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