Nora Hickey is an instructor at colleges in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Originally from Milwaukee, she holds degrees from Kalamazoo College and the University of New Mexico and is a member of the Albuquerque-based Dirt City writers collective.

Unemployed

by Nora Hickey

An idea surfacing—a crack
of orange teeth. As if a glass
ceiling disappears. I will
my hands to move. The mold grows
in like men’s beards. The sprinkler

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