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published September 2009

Krystal Languell is completing her MFA at New Mexico State University where she is an assistant editor for Puerto del Sol and senior editor with Noemi Press. She is the author of a forthcoming chapbook from Tilt Press entitled The Mean Particle. Other work has appeared in Eleven Eleven, DIAGRAM, Santa Clara Review and elsewhere.

Before I Met You

by

You saw the creek
clogged with garbage

once

and it was beau­ti­ful
and you never told me
or any­one else.