Amber Flora Thomas

Amber Flora Thomas is the author of three collections of poetry, including Eye of Water, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, The Rabbits Could Sing, and most recently, Red Channel in the Rupture. A recipient of the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize, the Richard Peterson Prize, and the Ann Stanford Prize, she is currently an associate professor of Creative Writing at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

Poetry – Issue 31

Some Ways We Live Beyond Your Death

I throw salt over my left shoulder / into the eye of a stranger. For months we can’t speak / so we go to the shore and our words come / back in the mouths of laughing gulls. . . .

Poetry – Issue 26

•Moment in Which the Self Moves under Song

I drew into me
a salt and bitter tongue that crested
and soaked the numb ladder through my limbs

and let you climb in,
rung after rung. I meant to breathe,

Poetry – Issue 26

•How to Leave Her

As a beautiful cut in
the frantic school of light,
crouching on the gray rocks