Pimone Triplett, a finalist in Narrative’s Fifteenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of four poetry collections: Supply Chain, Rumor, The Price of Light, and Ruining the Picture. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Washington and lives in Seattle.

Hyperobject

by Pimone Triplett

In the throat, phlegm an icky sheen,
smoke-snotted, a new seasonal sick.
Plus names made in a cave—tiger lily,

skunk cabbage, fleabane—meant
tame, went fractal. What past there was,
oracular, returned, like a frail deer
People on couch
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