Elizabet Elliott won Second Place in Narrative’s Fifth Annual Poetry Contest. Born in Texas, she grew up in Alabama and received a BFA from Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand, and an MFA in interdisciplinary art from Goddard College in Port Townsend, Washington. She lives and works in Mobile, Alabama.


SECOND PLACE WINNER


Five Poems

by Elizabet Elliott

When You Know the Secret
Death of Things

i was a wild thing
down by the river, quiet like wild things are.


i waded murk
a seeker of shed skins fervent in the catching of winged quiver
and brave.
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