Christie Collins
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A Green Bell Pepper Cut Open & Held to the Light
Majesty.
The flesh green center
of a fresh universe,
light emitting through
thick verdant walls.
One seeded planet mounted
amid a dense rotunda.
A hollow meaning.
A whole meaning:
an ephemeral answer
to a permanent question.
A gutted amphitheater.
A loud factory.
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Christie Collins grew up on an apple farm in the deep, blue mountains of North Carolina outside of Waynesville. She is an English instructor at Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. student at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. Her poems have appeared in Cold Mountain Review, Canyon Voices, and So To Speak. Her chapbook, Along the Diminishing Stretch of Memory, was published in 2014 by Dancing Girl Press.