Emily Brandt is the author of three poetry chapbooks, most recently Sleeptalk or Not At All (forthcoming from Horse Less Press). Her poems have appeared in Apogee, Sink Review, H_NGM_N, The Atlas Review, and other journals. Emily is a co-founding editor of No, Dear, a Web Acquisitions Editor for VIDA, and a contributing writer for Weird Sister. She lives in Brooklyn.

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POETRY

One or Several Silences in the Girls’ Room at St. John’s

By EMILY BRANDT

“Lights vibrate in the sky above my head / drop sky ceiling plastering down”