"Heavily influenced by writers like Eileen Myles, Michelle Tea and
David Berman, Meredith Heil's poems read often like stories and her
stories usually sound like poems. She studied creative writing at
Eugene Lang College in New York and is now living in Massachusetts and
working on a queer young adult novel called Wake Up. From the Heartland
is her second self-published chapbook."
Excerpt from "Definition":
And it’s not as hard as
redefining that night you were late to meet me because you didn’t want
to put an end to the pattern of sounds your pacing feet made against
the sidewalk, hopping up and down Classon, head down, concentrating on
your sneakers. And it could never be as hard as redefining how much I
loved you for that, for telling me what had happened, what you were
doing, what took so long, quietly though and behind my friends because
you didn’t want them to think you were weird.
But it might be as hard as the night I redefined “You’re beautiful”
and you pushed your forehead up against mine and slipped your hand
behind my ribs and said “I don’t care, I don’t care” when I guess I was
expecting the redefinition of reciprocation.
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