Alanna Rae is a poet and public librarian in Baltimore. They received their M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where they were awarded the William Dickey Poetry Fellowship. Their poems have appeared in the San Diego Poetry Annual and the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, among other publications. Their nonfiction book, Consensuality, is available through Microcosm Publishing under the pen name Helen Wildfell.
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i can't imagine what the square root of negative one equals i can't imagine
how one plane created knowledge i can't imagine which day apathy turned
into hunger i can't imagine how many apples she ate in the word problem
i can't imagine when movement slithered into curves i can't imagine why
the test failed desire i can't imagine when the leaf covered other memories
i can't imagine who will till the imaginary numbers