Poetry Contest Winners

Jenny M. Xie, who won First Place in Narrative’s Fourth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of the chapbook Nowhere to Arrive and the poetry collection Eye Level (Graywolf, 2018). She received her MFA from New York University, where she teaches, and lives in Brooklyn.


FIRST PLACE WINNER


A Separate Set of Signs

by Jenny M. Xie

A woman boards the overnight train,

her bag packed with rolls of candied


hawthorne and bouillon cubes.
A bulb in the station leaks its weak light.

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