[PROSE POEM] Auxier Ridge Trail
“Auxier Ridge Trail” is a lyric meditation on emotional exhaustion, intimacy, and the erosive beauty of shared experience within a natural landscape.
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Emily Sledge is a born and bred bluegrass poet and screenwriter. Her work has appeared in Poetry Hotline, Miracle Monocle, The Bangalore Review, Ninth Heaven Literary Journal, and others — forthcoming in Bad Limp and Vox Femme Magazine. She resides in Kentucky and is currently a graduate student at the University of Louisville.
Instagram: @emilystasia
Website: espoetry.us