You Spit Hills and My Body | Erin Carlyle

Erin Carlyle’s work has been featured in magazines such as The Yellow Medicine Review, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and Third Point Press. Her poetry is largely informed by the southeastern countryside and a childhood living in poverty. She holds a MA in Literary and Textual Studies from Bowling Green State University and a graduate certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies from Western Kentucky University. Her most recent work focuses on the effects of gender, class, geography, and cultural memory on the body, particularly how the body’s dissociation from the individual is dependent upon one’s circumstance.  At the present, she lives in Bowling Green, Ohio with her cat Frankie.       Being Old and Vulnerable and Cat MythologiesShe is not the brilliant head of anything. She sits slack and never learns. You bring her dreams fully back to their beginnings. Is she a bird girl or a deer girl? Which one is the one that is the best to be? If she were a cat, how could she have chas