Elizabeth Metzger is the author of the poetry collection The Spirit Papers, which won the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. First Place winner of Narrative’s Fifth Annual Poetry Contest, Metzger earned her MFA at Columbia University.

Nefertiti

by Elizabeth Metzger

Your name is a sentence, the beautiful one has come.
If my name were a sentence
it would be
I make my own misery.

Lady of two lands two
hands two hearts. In this one
she is kissing
her daughter. In this one I am
wondering
if some people are better
than others. Better at tolerating each other.
People on couch
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