{"id":4823,"date":"2023-10-25T18:03:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T01:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2024-12-13T08:47:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:47:33","slug":"issue-92-sara-burge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/issue-92-sara-burge\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 92: Sara Burge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Sara Burge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sara Burge is the author of Apocalypse Ranch<\/em> (C&R Press), and her poetry has been published in or is forthcoming from CALYX Journal, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Baltimore Review, The Louisville Review, Prairie Schooner, River Styx<\/em>, and elsewhere. She\u2019s a three time Best of the Net nominee and teaches creative writing at Missouri State University, where she serves as the Poetry Editor of Moon City Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sara can be found on Instagram as @das_burge and on Facebook as Sara Burge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more of her works online at The Good Life Review<\/a>, Pacifica<\/a>, Atticus Review<\/a>, Up the Staircase Quarterly<\/a>, as well as at her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Notes on “Sexy Fish” and “Harry Styles is the Way”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

While these poems aren\u2019t Pandemic Poems, they were written during quarantine, so that time\u2019s vibe seeped into them. \u201cSexy Fish\u201d grew out of a tipsy conversation with my husband about how much we missed the comradery of the restaurant industry. We met working in restaurants, and while we\u2019d long been out of the biz, the community that came from being in the trenches with other humans\u2014all working toward the singular goal of getting through a shift\u2014was something we sorely missed. This was during lockdown when everyone was isolated and questioning life decisions and turning into little rabid caged animals. So, \u201cSexy Fish\u201d started as an inebriated quarantine fantasy about trying to make life worthwhile and beautiful again. To have control. We came up with a business plan and everything. Then we went to bed and Sexy Fish the restaurant turned into \u201cSexy Fish\u201d the poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At its core, \u201cHarry Styles Is the Way\u201d is about missing the comfort provided by seemingly trivial things once they\u2019ve disappeared. Nothing new, right? Very pandemic-y. It started out as a more straightforward ode to a Harry Styles cardboard cutout (\u201cstandee,\u201d I\u2019ve since learned they\u2019re called). Every time I drove by him, I smiled and said, Hey, Harry Styles! It was like the thrill you get when you hear the owl in your neighborhood and think, There\u2019s our owl! But Harry vanished, and then the pandemic hit. Not seeing Harry on my once-a-week trip to get groceries amplified a sense of hollowness a lot of people were experiencing. I so badly wanted to see him again. Harry Styles as missing savior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music, Food, Booze, Tattoos, Kittens, etc.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My husband was a chef for years, so I am blessed to get fantastic food on a regular basis. That man doesn\u2019t just follow recipes. He chefs. Hard. My favorite thing he\u2019s made for me recently is his chile relleno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m mostly a vodka gal, but when fall hits, it\u2019s either Piney River Brewing Company\u2019s Black Walnut Wheat Ale or Mother\u2019s Brewing Company\u2019s Winter Grind. Both breweries are based here in the Ozarks and make all kinds of tastiness. Shout out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to get a tattoo of a praying mantis soon\u2014my husband got me a gift card to a local tattoo shop because I\u2019ve been talking about getting a praying mantis tattoo for years. I already have a cat tattoo on my shoulder. It\u2019s a black cat, like my beloved black kitty Maeve (Sweet Kitty) who passed away last October. We now have a gray tuxedo kitty named Lucifurr who lives up to her name, though she is finally allowing me to give her affection without immediately clawing me to bloody shreds.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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\"Willow<\/figure>\n\n\n

Two Poems by Sara Burge<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

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