Alannah Hensley

Alannah Hensley (she/her) is a queer poet from Arkansas. She lives in Washington D.C. and is a poetry reader for Mudroom Mag. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Foglifter, and elsewhere.

Junior Dreams

Of the fish in the Pine Bluff mall. Of being fishbowled in the skylit octagon of a rubber pond, the soft give of the lily pads beneath his hands and feet, the polished echo of a hollow log. Most of all he remembers the cool, dappled surface of the fish’s mouth against his palms, the quiet inside the body. There… Read more →