Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured in The Nation, Georgia Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Witness, PoetryNow podcast through the Poetry Foundation and others. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses (Horseless Press 2015) and Crawlspace (Bloof 2017) as well as the graphic chapbook I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel from Bloof Books (2016). She lives in Wisconsin.

INSIGHT

Anti-Elegy

By NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER

Honey, my earth is merciful. You understand? / I call you mine not as ownership but because / you are a part of me.