Elizabeth Threadgill holds an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in Developmental Education-Literacy, both from Texas State University. She grew up in Marfa, Texas, and now lives in upstate New York, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at Utica College. She is the author of the chapbook Tangled in the Light (2018). Her poetry appears in Radar Poetry and Transom.

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Deer Legs

By ELIZABETH THREADGILL

watching my father
string the soft spots
in deer legs