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Volume 3 Number 2 • Fall 2011
The flies dive
towards our arms and legs,
their whirring black bodies
small dervishes dancing
through the dust.
How to make myself small—
like a breath on someone's face,
not the wind through trees.
Sara Dailey's poems and essays have appeared in Calyx, Cimarron Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Blue Earth Review, among others. Her chapbook The Science of Want won the 2009 Shadow Poetry competition and was a finalist for the Flume Press contest. She works as a teacher and editor in St. Paul, MN.