Michelle Villanueva, 2/2/2015

Current Occupation:  Graduate Assistant
Former Occupation:  Attorney 
Contact Information:  Michelle Villanueva is a student finishing up an MFA in Creative Writing – Poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  Her work has previously appeared in The Tower Journal, Floodwall Magazine, Foothill Poetry Journal and other print and online publications.

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earth mover

after this long

my heartbeat

the beeps when I

back up the truck

 

the whoosh of dirt

falling the rhythm

of my breath

 

something so

consequential

as a bull

 

dozes while gravel

streams like brittle

glistening