Posts By: Anna Lena Phillips

I didn’t trust the ones / smuggled for us
purportedly / from the forests of Europe . . .

My first girlfriend had a possum in her attic. I never woke to the sound of it scurrying across her ceiling

In contrast to the Old Testament, which blamed the pain of childbirth on sin, evolutionary biologists in the late twentieth century proposed the obstetrical dilemma.

All day I move from one white space to another. / Today, ranked from whitest to least white: my classroom (as a teacher), my / classroom (as a student), my apartment, Kung Fu Tea. . . .

While I work in my studio, my landlord performs her annual walk-through of my apartment and texts her concern: it’s pretty griefy in there.