Haley Karin is a poet and technical writer currently working in Northern California. She received her B.A in English from California State University, Sacramento in 2015. Her poems have appeared in several printed editions including Calaveras Station Literary Journal, The Tule Review and the 2017 edition of The Sacramento Voices Anthology. This year her piece “Cover Girl” was selected as a finalist for the Fortnight Prize by Eyewear Publishing Ltd.
These days we still don’t stop for death.
Instead, we pass by and outside the window
lining the suburban boulevard one tree gleams
in the morning sun—the trunk wound tight in tinsel...