Have you ever met a girl who’s half
.             as clever? Never! And it’s true,

                  everything in my
house folds up: the bed creases
                  along lines of sheets—even

my elbows, my knees, collapse
                  for easy storage—you
know Mother was

a crazy quilt, but this girl’s
                  better—my head is filled
with seating charts

                  and wood biscuits, a few grains
of poesy all mixed
                  in the matter—I polish

my eyes each morning, I
                  curl felt tongue around names
of old fairy kings—yes, bones

                  nothing but batting—pull
a hangnail, lose the hand—
                  but, listen!

–Morgan Adams,
In Nonestica (2013)
Accents Publishing

More from In Nonestica and Morgan Adams:

• Accents Poets Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
• “Imprint”
• “Visitors”
• “House”
• Morgan Adams’s Lexington Poetry Month Submissions

Morgan Adams was born and raised in a bookstore in Lexington, Kentucky and wrote her own first “book” at the age of five. She graduated from Berea College and earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Indiana University. Her work often draws upon myth, folklore, and family history.

She is also editor-in-chief and poetry editor of Osedax Press.