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PROSE POETRY​

ELLERY BECK



Nothing is true but this trembling,

                                                                                                                                                                                         After The Microphones

not the static as it slips steady through the speaker, harmonizing with the soft singing; not the screech of a six-string coming close to its source, the feedback slowly unwinding off the stage; not the stage lights vignette eating away at the side of the set, not our hands sweat-stuck together from our theatre seats—not the true state of all things, not ride home across the hushed highways, how your hand has stayed stuck to mine, how you sing me to sleep.



Ellery Beck is an undergraduate student majoring in English at Salisbury University. A winner of the 2019 AWP Portland Flash Contest and a Pushcart nominee, they are the Founding Interview Editor for The Shore Poetry and a Poetry Reader for Poet Lore. They have poems published in Colorado Review, Zone3, Sugar House Review, Fugue, Slipstream and elsewhere. Ellery is also one of the co-founders of Beaver Magazine.
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