In This False Memory At Least We Were Rich

Spring was barely a fleck on the horizon

when we arrived, our tiny family a beast

asleep. You and I held hands and named the patches

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Josephine Blair Cipriano

Josephine Blair Cipriano (she/her) is a 2019 Brooklyn Poets Fellow whose work has been published or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Copper Nickel, Epiphany Magazine, Yes Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Poets Poem of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Frontier Magazine New Voices Prize. She lives in Tucson, AZ.