Leslie McIntosh Leslie McIntosh’s debut volume of poetry, within-group variance, was selected by Terrance Hayes for the 2025 Changes Book Prize. Leslie’s poems have appeared in Adi Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Foglifter, Fourteen Hills, Indiana Review, Obsidian, Ploughshares, Southern Humanities Review, Witness, and widely elsewhere.

still life in necromancy | Poetry

Leslie McIntosh

What makes the dead turn  Beyond decomposition  Is mystery is radical is  Teleportation is a man coming  Back to life is a toddler falling  From a playground swing  Zenith-spat smartly into mud  Seeing all around lose her  In descent puddle and dirt find her  A worm forced from home by rain  Wriggles closer to her ear saying  Baby is a deer knowing no  Language but understanding  What it can safely...