Laura Ohlmann

It Never Ends
Forget what they told you—
there is little light in Florida
during summer. Just the blinds
tilted upward to askew the glare
from outside, and the white
bulb in the living room that omits
a false brightness. . . .
Laura Ohlmann, It Never Ends
From the Depths 2021

Honorable Mention —Wild Ekphrastic Poetry Contest, 2016
Abortion —Honey&Lime, 2019
To Justin, For My Father, and The Alter —South Florida Poetry Journal, 2019
It’s Not Bulletproof —In Parentheses, 2020
12 Hours From an Airbnb in Texas —The Elevation Review, 2020
Removing the Noose —The Maine Review, 2020
Lightning Wildfires —Plum Recruit, 2020
Wellspring and Dad’s Bedroom —GASHER Journal, 2020
What Do I Call It? and When Will It End? —The Rumpus, 2021
What Death Is —The Lindenwood Review, 2020
Mother Ode and Arrhythmia —West Trade Review, 2020 & 2021
The EZ Trail —The New Southern Fugitives, 2020
Right Fist, Poised to Cross —Saw Palm, 2021
Back to Nineteen-Ninety Four —The South Carolina Review, 2021
Routines of the Living —Cathexis Northwest Press, 2020
Nuclear and Cycling Around Lake Davis —OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, 2021
From the Edge of the Mountain, Where Is My Sister? —Cordella Magazine, 2021
Butterfly World —The Post Grad Journal, 2021
The Journey —West Trade Review, 2021 (Book Review)
Wind Turbines —Twyckenham Notes, 2021
Kinetic Family Drawing —New Plains Review, forthcoming