Boothill Graveyard
Tombstone, AZ
mrs suicide : mrs arsenic : mrs dance hall girls quarreling over a man : mrs descriptive murder in the streets of tombstone : mrs violent death : mrs hanging : mrs victim : mrs crucifixion thorn : mrs husband was away : mrs suspected poisoning : mrs old jail house yard : mrs burned to death : mrs suicide : mrs severe cramps : mrs severe spasms : mrs pauper’s grave : mrs chloroform overdose : mrs jealousy : mrs stampede : mrs charcoal fumes : mrs cockfight : mrs queen of the red light district : mrs some women : mrs abandoned widow : mrs stillborn birth : mrs charcoal fumes : mrs rapid consumption : mrs disparaging remark : mrs cowboy : mrs suicide : mrs suicide : mrs suicide
Originally from Mississippi, Hannah V Warren is a poet, translator, literary critic, and Fulbright Scholar living between Birmingham, AL, and Gambier, OH, as the Kenyon Review Fellow. Along with authoring the poetry collection Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales (2024) and two chapbooks, she was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Grant for her work with German poetry. Warren has a PhD in literature from the University of Georgia and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Kansas.
Boyden Cemetery
Amarillo, TX
dirtroad : dirtroad : dirtroad
kinetic emptiness
all soils a different color
poppy orange & pale yellow
synthetic purple
rerouting at every crossroads
my sister practices landscape photography
in the ruins of a ranch hand hotel
she holds her camera
like a sawed-off shotgun
every turn a turn toward
a sort of disease
crowding the tombstones
fire ant beds at peak height
flowers laid on children’s graves
organized like broken teeth scattered
beside dirty abandoned bathtubs
sinking into the earth
delicate hands semi-transparent in the sun
right on the brink of vanishing
