"Lament for Rejection Letter Wednesday" by N. Arlowe Calder

Lament for Rejection Letter Wednesday

Doubt is always a bloodsucker—winged transport
for
depression’s
malarial
pillow—
for
depression’s
coffin
brochure
for
a bloodsucker, Doubt is always transportable—winged.

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4/1/2026

N. Arlowe Calder is an emerging poet whose work explores the unprettified edges of human experience and the deliberate silences between words. Her poetry reimagines America as a terrain of reflection, fracture, and redemption. When not writing, she works at Starbucks and spends meditative time on hikes. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.