Baku by Delvon T. Mattingly

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Baku

All nightmares are bad 
omens,
such as ones about the deaths 
of my sisters, 
of which eat away
at my lucidity,
swallowed by tapirs, 
the ones that devour dreams 
and regurgitate the hearts
of my kin.

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Delvon T. Mattingly, who also goes by D.T. Mattingly, is a writer from Louisville, Kentucky and a PhD student in epidemiology at the University of Michigan. His fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in literary journals such as Maudlin House, Jellyfish Review, and Star 82 Review, and health/scientific journals such as Anesthesiology; Families, Systems, & Health; and Academic Psychiatry. He currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Learn more about his work at http://delvonmattingly.com/. 

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