two poems

by Olivia Rose

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BIO: Olivia Rose was born and raised in San Jose. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Jose State University, where she earned the Alan Soldofsky Award for Outstanding MFA Thesis and served as Reed Magazine's Senior Poetry Editor. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Qu Literary Magazine, Red Coyote, Scapegoat Review, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.