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The backwoods West Virginia lawyer
who sneers That’s a foreign last name!
becomes the Russian holding a knifepoint
to my carotid artery,
preparing to plunge the blade
and disgorge my inferior blood
into the Motherland’s rich, black soil.
who sneers That’s a foreign last name!
becomes the Russian holding a knifepoint
to my carotid artery,
preparing to plunge the blade
and disgorge my inferior blood
into the Motherland’s rich, black soil.
Nicole Yurcaba hails from a long line of coal miners,
Ukrainian immigrants and West Virginian mountain folk. She is an adjunct
instructor of English and Developmental Reading, substitute teacher and farm
hand hailing from West Virginia currently pursuing her Master of Humanities in
English at Tiffin University. Her work has appeared in print and online
journals such as VoxPoetica, Referential Magazine, Rolling Thunder Quarterly,
Decompression, Hobo Camp Review, The Camel Saloon, Jellyfish Whispers, Napalm
and Novocaine, Floyd County Moonshine and many others. In life, she enjoys
taking the unbeaten path, and usually exits the scene pursued by bear.
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