N30B Winners

Michelle Dominique Burk, Third Place winner in the 2017 Narrative 30 Below Contest, was born in Pittsburgh. She earned an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and is a PhD candidate in the University of Houston’s Literature and Creative Writing Department. She lives in Houston.


THIRD PLACE WINNER


Lullaby

by Michelle Dominique Burk

Listen
he says
to the way I’ll never kiss you again.

Whistle of a train breaking from the floorboards,
music of wet cement, sweet Black and Mild through
a vent, and this is not the end, but it is almost the end.
The something still to be done. The pruning of shrubs.


Do anything. Please.
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