“object permanence” by Lo Naylor | The Missouri Review
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Thrilled to be selected for the 2025 Best New Poets anthology! Here's the poem, originally published in The Missouri Review missourireview.com/naylor/
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beautiful!
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Just got this beautiful, hefty volume with my little poem inside.
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“I’ll take you to her
said the mortician when I returned to collect you
& he gestured toward a pedestal,
lit by a spotlight, guarded
by a velvet rope.” —excerpt from “You’d Be Thirty Today” by Lo Naylor
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