Based on the information provided about Sara Dailey's writing background and publications, can you recommend other poets or literary journals to explore for similar content?: to yours, a continent clinging.
a compass when held in your palm.
thrumming, a drum through your skin.
of notes silvered, wild, and breaking.
to be a barrier, a side he would have to pick.
and whatever the not of you would entail.
it kept blurring at your feet.
with the tides, a fictive constant.
he’d ask you to stay or tell you not to go.
It is easy for me to find things beautiful. The way a man’s hands look when he holds his child. How the corners of the eyes crinkle when someone laughs. Steady sound, rain on a roof. Even the shine of a beetle’s back in sunlight. If you want to find beauty, you just need to learn how to pay attention.
Sara Dailey has a B.S. in Writing from Mankato State, a M.A. in English from the University of St. Thomas, and a M.F.A. from Hamline University. Her poems and essays have appeared in journals such as Ascent, Cimarron Review, The Bitter Oleander, Whiskey Island Magazine, and FragLit, among others. In 2009 she won the Shadow Poetry chapbook competition for her manuscript The Science of Want, which was also a finalist for the 2009 Flume Press prize. Her full-length collection, Earlier Lives, which was a finalist for the 2012 Backwaters Prize, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2012. More at: sadailey.com.
This prompt doesn't seem malicious.