Rebecca Macijeski
SELECTED POEMS
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"How to Keep Going," "How to Lose Your Fear of Death," "How to Paint the Sky." Your Impossible Voice Issue 29 Fall 2023
"The Girl Gives a Grand Tour of her Self Portrait, Age 6." Cordella Magazine Issue Eighteen (January 2024)
"Because I Look to the Trees to Learn Why I Love You." Empty House Press Issue 10 (Summer 2023)
"Self Portrait as Snowfall," "The Trees Are on Your Side," "The Girl as Oracle." The Amazine (6-22-2023)
"Rapture, or When It Happens," "The Story of Him." Amsterdam Review (Spring 2023)
"Self Portrait as an Ear." Rogue Agent Issue 94 (January 2023)
"sealed stone," "community." Split Rock Review Issue 19 (November 2022)
"The Girl's Dream Journal." Pinhole Poetry (July 2022)
"Cartography." EcoTheo Review (July 2022)
"Autobiography (watercolor)." RHINO 2022
"Yeti's Afternoon Tea," "Yeti Plays Chess by Correspondence." Primeval Monster (May 2022)
"Because I Listen," "To My Brother Eleven Months Younger Than Me Whose Body is No Longer Alive." The Mantle
Issue 18 (April 2022)
"Self Portrait as My Childhood Staircase." Red Ogre Review (March 2022)
"Because I Make Myself New Each Day." Four Way Review Issue #21 (August 2021)
"Because I Am Not Some Bland, Studied Thing Called 'The Self.'" Peatsmoke Journal (September 2020)
How He Got Here," "Virgil Sees the End of the World." The Boiler Issue 32 (Summer 2020)
"Why We Needed Iceland." Oyster River Pages (September 1, 2020)
"What if When We Introduced Ourselves We Told These Stories Instead." Harbor Review (July 2020)
"Autobiography (birdhouse)." Ghost City Review (May 2020)
"Because I Like to Make My Mind Pretty the Way We're Told to Make Our Bodies Pretty, I Work at Thinking Beautiful Things." Zingara Poetry Review (April 25, 2020)
"Evening Thoughts and January Snow." Cumberland River Review (January 2020)
"Theories of Opening and Closing," "Theories of Imagination." Watershed Review (Fall 2019)
"What Doesn't Die," "What People We Could Become," "We Are the Sweet Cold Water and the Jar that Pours,"
"Awe." Border Crossing Volume 9 (Fall 2019)
"Spend Less Time with Nightingales and Peacocks. One is Just a Voice, the Other Just a Color." Panoplyzine Issue
Twelve (May 3, 2019)
“How a Mind is Like an Engine, a Tree.” Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine (April 19, 2019)
“Because I Read Too Much Into Everything.” Rockvale Review Issue Two (May 1, 2018)
“Cinema Virgil,” “Virgil Imagines Space,” “Dust.” Rappahannock Review Cosmos Issue (July 27, 2018)
“Landscape with Salt.” Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine (April 23, 2018)
"The Ballad of Virgil Johnson," "Virgil Stays a While in Boise City, a.k.a. 'No Man's Land.'" The Museum of Americana
Issue 13 (October 2017)
"Death's First Lesson," "Death's Mother Shows Her How to Eat Clams." Atlas and Alice Issue 8 (Dec. 12, 2016)
“When I Was Six My Mother Set Out Sleeping Bags in a Blue Plastic Pool in the Yard So We Could Watch the Lights
in the Sky.” Glass: A Journal of Poetry (September 2016)
“Searching,” “Sonata for Water and Birds.” Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing (Spring 2016)
“Bubble Making.” Sliver of Stone Magazine Issue 11 (Fall 2015)
“June 28th.” Duende (Fall 2015)
“Death After an Early Morning Commute.” Cumberland River Review Issue 4.3 (Summer 2015)
“Evening Market.” Cumberland River Review Issue 4.4 (Fall 2015)
“Who Would Ever Know.” Pamplemousse (2015)
“Boston to Japan.” Lime Hawk Issue 5 (April 2015)
“I Read Somewhere This Is True.” Star 82 Review Issue 3.2 (June 2015)
“Under the Streetlamp.” Kudzu House Quarterly: feral lands, feral selves, Issue 5.2 (2015)
“In the Library.” Painted Bride Quarterly Volume 8 Issue 92 (2015)
“My Letters,” “Gathering.” Tinderbox Poetry Journal Volume 1 Issue 2 (2014)
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