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  • Interlude
  • Jaimee Hills (bio)

The seagull in the wind stays hoveringtransfixed by elements, suspended secondsdripping off her feathers. Look too closelyand it looks like flying—a hoax some ghostlysheet of wind plays. Wings wide open, she beckonsstasis—waits—intent on recovering

a thought, or something thoughtful. Like the stonewho’s waited here for someone the long years.A loveseat, something for the gull to paint,somewhere for the wind to make complaint.Outlier of the bulwark, it appearsto wade in sand, time measured by the grain.

The seagull cries, You’re sinking slowly, dear.The stone says nothing, staring at the oceanthe way a camera veers its gaze awayfrom lovers in the sand, their moans like spraycarried off by the wind. The breakers motioncruelly to them both: Come here. Come here. [End Page 124]

Jaimee Hills

jaimee hills is the author of How to Avoid Speaking, which won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and was published by Waywiser Press in 2015. Her work has appeared in Verse Daily, Best New Poets, Mississippi Review, Drunken Boat, Blackbird, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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