Ariel Machell is a poet from California. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon and is an Associate Poetry Editor for Northwest Review. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets, and is published or forthcoming in The McNeese Review, Birdcoat Quarterly, trampset, The Pinch, SWWIM, The Shore, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Los Angeles. You can read more of her work at arielmachell.com.
they say we ran into the ocean with all our clothes they say i was jealous of you say we live on an island we are a city on an island our clothes salted crisp and we enter i say i swam your hair i say your hair was a river say your hair was a river and i swam… Read more →