In our July issue, “Three Poems” by Lane Falcon. Look on for dishonest cars, black daisies, and nervous bibles.

1. There are such ghosts in “Amber.” If they were to make themselves known, where in these stanzas would they be hiding? 

Probably the last stanza, the on-looker stanza. The poem honors someone who is idoliized– a heroine– but estranged. Someone I love and admire, although I hardly ever see her anymore.

2. Those strings of black daisies: a testament to what?

Rebellion, strength, opposition, adaptation.

3. I love the close, dark spaces of “Apology.” I ask because I’m curious, because the text and audio contradict: which is more honest, a Hyundai or a Nissan?

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