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  • After This, Earth
  • Sarah Pemberton Strong (bio)

could become a worry stone in the pocket

of space, or a mood ring on the finger of a newly minted

god. Perhaps a sucker for a throat sore with saying

over and over the same thing. Or a locket at the neck

of an aurora— inside, old photographs

of icebergs: that blue light cracking open to sing. [End Page 107]

Sarah Pemberton Strong

sarah pemberton strong is the author of Tour of the Breath Gallery, winner of the 2013 Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry, and two novels. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Southwest Review, and The Sun. She is a poetry editor at New Haven Review and a licensed master plumber who runs a one-person plumbing business in Hamden, Connecticut, where she lives with her spouse and daughter.

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