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Swarms of Grasshoppers Invade Las Vegas Amelia Martens (bio) "Vast swarms of the insects are being drawn to the neon lights of Sin City—but they are not dangerous." -BBC News July 31, 2019 We are dangerous, we climbthirty-two stories, breakout windows and aim:our arms fullof automatic rifles. We glitter with brokenglass and we blockadedoorways for time;we angle more bulletsat the fish in our barrel,who people this parking lot. We are not attractedto neon, but to the newsinfamy is a type of love:an infinite tattoounexplainable, a truth. We drag bodies downto concrete, grass,asphalt, with holesthe size of insects;blood buzz heartssearch out a new queen. We are dangerous: we dieand return; we die andspread; we die andswarm; we die andeat the nest we warm. [End Page 35] Amelia Martens Amelia Martens is the author of The Spoons in the Grass are There To Dig a Moat (Sarabande Books, 2016), and four chapbooks. In 2019, she received an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. She co-curates the Rivertown Reading Series, Exit 7, and two awesome daughters. Copyright © 2020 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents
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