July 5, 2025
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If someone put a gun to my head
and forced me to teach a yoga class,
I’d play doom metal music and
have everyone imagine:
it’s 70 degrees,
they’re sleeping under a palm tree,
the sun is as golden as yellow daylilies.
There is no rain — only the sound of rain.
Then, I’d make them imagine that their bodies are crawling with lizards
until they begged me for mercy.
Published in Poems
Molly Kirschner is a poet and playwright. Kirschner’s first book of poems, Hard Proof, was released in July of 2015 from Red Mountain Press. It was the #1 bestseller from Small Press Distribution in June 2015. Her second collection, Notes For Further Research, was released in December 2017 from Anaphora Literary Press. Kirschner’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including the New Ohio Review, and in Italian translation.
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