Poetry Update 4!
I can’t believe that I’ve actually had 10 pieces accepted this year. After setting the goal for myself at the end of July, I never...
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Bailey Merlin
Bailey Merlin
Oct 11, 20185 min read
Paris (again): Day 6
Not going to lie, this seems like a viable career option. I start the day later than expected, but this is understandable when one...
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Bailey Merlin
Sep 1, 20181 min read
Poem #16
A Year Drowning in Ladybugs Aphids are laying eggs underneath my fingernails. I’m looking for ladybugs to eat them all up, fatted so I...
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Bailey Merlin
Aug 19, 20181 min read
Poem #15
when i realized i’d never forgive you when i saw the trumpeter blow the horn, my jericho heart came down, moved from flesh to fluid. it...
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Bailey Merlin
Aug 17, 20181 min read
Poem #14
A Love Poem for Cary Grant (the name I gave my depression) I tell my friend I think about suicide every night, the thought a pillow mint...
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 25, 20181 min read
Poetry Update 3!
This week has been one of those “When it rains, it pours” sort of situations. After a submission frenzy earlier this month, two of my...
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 22, 20181 min read
Poetry Update 2!
Exciting news, everyone. My poem “Rule of Nines” has recently been published by the gracious team at The Indianapolis Review. Please,...
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 19, 20181 min read
Poem #13
Redistribution Your head is a Lazy Susan spinning busy, out of control like the wheels of time grinding you down. Are you feeling a...
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 18, 20181 min read
Poem #12
a long term cure for paronychia we linger on your hangnails, preparing to be chewed away. i want you to dip me headfirst into paraffin...
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Bailey Merlin
Jun 8, 20182 min read
Poem #11
June 12, 2008 It’s mosquitos swarming and the screen door slapping against the hickory frame as my body is stretching out of girlhood ...
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Bailey Merlin
May 6, 20181 min read
Poem #10
Hermit Crab Hermetism There’s something in your sleeping breath that reminds me of a hermit crab gathering its courage to find a home...
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Bailey Merlin
Feb 20, 20181 min read
Poem #9
Untethered The world is made of string, all held together, tangled, tripping though resting on quantum foam to make up quarks both...
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Bailey Merlin
Jan 20, 20181 min read
Poem #8
Burn Wise Wood smoke cannot be contained, though persuaded to linger in the slope of your shoulder then visited by the keen talent of my...
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Bailey Merlin
Nov 17, 20171 min read
Poem #7
Striped I fell from a dock in the summer, split my hand open like a ripened fig, blood drip-dropping to ruddy the waves while I gulped...
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 11, 20171 min read
Poem #6
My Gujarat Girl She never told me, but I knew the way she slept in mango trees and rolled over ripened fruit, a fragrant mess as she...
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Bailey Merlin
Jul 3, 20171 min read
Poem #5
As I struggle with yet another pressure migraine, I think fondly (okay, no so fondly) on the scarce few mornings in which I have woken up...
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Bailey Merlin
Jun 30, 20171 min read
Poem #4
Rosebud I felt a pinch in my palm: a rosebud sprouted from my life line. Its sepals clung together like a trembling suit of armor. I...
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Bailey Merlin
Jun 26, 20171 min read
Poem #3
Life has been pretty rough for me as of late. I’ve been through the wringer, and I’m just trying to keep my shit together long enough to...
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Bailey Merlin
Jun 8, 20171 min read
Poem #2
With so much time on my hands these days, I reflect a lot. A year ago, I met a young girl who was on the verge of tears every time I saw...
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Bailey Merlin
May 23, 20171 min read
Poem #1
I’ve been fiddling around with poetry a lot more these days because, for me, it’s a lot easier to write a poem and express myself than it...
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