Emma Aylor

Emma Aylor is the author of Close Red Water (Barrow Street Press, 2023), winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in New England ReviewAGNIPoetry Northwest, the Yale Review OnlinePoetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in Lubbock, Texas.

  • Slaughtered Ox

    Too easy, to take the body as a distraction—