Solving My Way to Lyric Essay

After Laurie Easter

ACROSS

 

  1. During talk sessions with Lance,
    when I don’t want to say the hard
    thing, I approach it from its love
    handles & nestle in the belly. I spend
    my time with him writing________ 
    on Post-it notes, taping, sometimes
    stapling them, caddy-corner to each
    other & reading them to him out of
    order, because I feel out of order:

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Halsey Hyer

Halsey Hyer is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Florida International University. They’re an Editorial Assistant for Seven Kitchens Press, Associate Editor of Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, and the Virtual Events Assistant at White Whale Bookstore. Halsey’s debut chapbook, Always yours/Boy, was awarded the 2021 Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize and is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in July 2022. Their micro-chapbook of micro-poems, everything becomes bananas, is set for release from Rinky Dink Press in 2022. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in Cutthroat: A Journal, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. Find out more—www.halseyhyer.org.