Cover Art: Chris Killip, Playground, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. 1974. Gelatin silver print, printed 2007. MOMA.

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When My Face Was in the Leaves Somewhere Off of Wellston Trail, Within Earshot of a Playground

It was a park
in the middle of a day.

There was no gun, no knife.
I did not fear for my life.

It was simple:
if I had screamed,
a child would have come running.
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I did not have the right.

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Scarlett Peterson is a Georgia native who received her B.A. in English and professional writing from Kennesaw State University. She’s currently working on an M.F.A. in poetry at Georgia College. She is editor in chief of Exhume Literary Magazine, and an assistant editor of poetry for Arts and Letters. Her poetry has appeared or is upcoming in Five2One, Serendipity, Pennsylvania English, Ink and Nebula, FRiGG, 8-West Press, The Magnolia Review, and Moon City Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in Pamoja, Madcap Review, and Counterclock Journal. 

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