Plainhollow | Natalie Eleanor Patterson

Natalie Eleanor Patterson is a half-Cuban femme lesbian poet and editor from suburban Georgia with a BA in English and Creative Writing from Salem College. She is the editor of Dream of the River (Jacar Press, 2021) and has work featured in Sinister Wisdom, Hunger Mountain, Yes Poetry, and more. She has received the 2018 and 2021 Katherine B. Rondthaler Award in Poetry from Salem College, a Best of the Net 2018-2019 nomination, and a 2020 Pushcart Prize nomination. She is the assistant editor of Jacar Press, a reader for One, and consulting editor with Sable Books. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at Oregon State University. Find her on Twitter @natalieepatt or visit her website, poetnatalie.com.      FoxesI don’t know where foxes go when they sleep,how they make their beds, or where.I imagine they nest with the fur and feathers of animals they’ve killed,folding fresh over former,like snow after sullied snow.I don’t know where the bones goafter the fox has had its fill.Surely they don