noor is a poet who teases, challenges, breaks, and creates language. she's a Callaloo and Watering Hole fellow and a recent resident of the Vermont Studio Center. her poems have been published and anthologized with DIAGRAM, ANMLY, The Academy of American Poets, The Rumpus, Bettering American Poetry, and others. her chapbook, PRAISE TO LESSER GODS OF LOVE, was published by Glass Poetry Press in 2019.

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first Came the fruit, then Came the fruit, first

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noose. first came the fruit, historically. never came the dinner.

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you smelled like an animal

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on fire at the wedding, poor goat.