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Talin Tahajian grew up near Boston. Her poetry has appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, Best New Poets 2014 & 2016, Black Warrior Review, and the Rumpus. She edits poetry for Big Lucks and the Adroit Journal, and is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan. This poem was longlisted for the 2018 Peach Gold in Poetry with guest judge Morgan Parker. I keep a strange list ​ The night whistles in as through two rain-white teeth. I turn to myself and say Help I think I am killing myself— this is everything we think we want. Roadkill is so intimate. Launch yourself into the gore-warm ocean. Beautiful. Hello the drowning is so good Come back no one can talk to buildings Come home but I am missionless. I wait for the water to reclaim the high white columns of our fathers. I am from an old city and, now, from other older cities. It’s hard to remember. Sometimes, I walk on the wrong side of the road in the wrong country. I am always dazed and easily dazzled. Like any good

--> Talin Tahajian | Peach Mag top of page Talin Tahajian grew up near Boston. Her poetry has appeared in the Kenyon Review Online , Indiana Review , Best New Poets 2014 & 2016 , Black Warrior Review , and the Rumpus . She edits poetry for Big Lucks and the Adroit Journal , and is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan. This poem was longlisted for the 2018 Peach Gold in Poetry with guest judge Morgan Parker. 1 poem by Talin Tahajian I keep a strange list ​ The night whistles in as through two rain-white teeth. I turn to myself and say Help I think I am killing myself- this is everythi

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