training module

By Emily Corwin / Issue 11

conceal yourself behind large objects.
prepare to improvise weapons. wear safe,

strong shoes. you must be trained and
familiar with the location of fire equipment.

do not climb on the office furniture. keep
yourself in good repair. no loose hair or

employee clothing. no standing water on
floors—avoid corrosion and nonslip surfaces.

keep illumination sufficient for work performed.
retain soft tissue injuries for work performed:

carpal tunnel, tendinitis, terrible posture. I became
revised—my torso warped like a sickle over my

instruments of work. in time, in courage, I set myself
free, asunder with a hole-punch, exited the facility to

yonder oleander, hair unbound, mule slip-ons slipped
off, feeling flexible as latex, reanimated in midair.

EMILY CORWIN is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Indiana University, as well as the former poetry editor of Indiana Review. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, New South, Yemassee, Gigantic Sequins, THRUSH, and elsewhere. She has two chapbooks, My Tall Handsome (Brain Mill Press) and darkling (Platypus Press) which were published in 2016. Her first full-length collection, tenderling was released from Stalking Horse Press earlier this year. She was a finalist for the 2018 Pleiades Press Editors Prize and recently, her manuscript, sensorium was chosen as the Editor’s Choice selection for the 2018 Akron Poetry Prize.