Emilie Lindemann

CONTACT:
Website: emilielindemann.com

BIO:
Emilie Lindemann is the author of Ghost(ed) Woman & the Electric Purple Pants forthcoming in June 2025 from Fresh Water Press. Previous publications include a full-length poetry collection, mother-mailbox (Misty Publications, 2016), as well as several chapbooks, including Capsule Wardrobe for the End of the World (dancing girl press, 2019). Emilie teaches writing and communication courses at Lakeshore College and serves as a poetry editor for Stoneboat Literary Journal. She lives on a dairy farm in Wisconsin with her husband, son, and border collie. Her days are lined with lavender, chicory root, Queen Anne's lace, and red clover.

PUBLICATIONS:
mother-mailbox (Misty Publications, 2016)
Capsule Wardrobe for the End of the World (dancing girl press, 2019)

Poetry

Dreamscape // with amaretto latte’ as time travel portal

I’m in the future wearing a powder blue pants suit and those pale blue heels from my favorite consignment shop. When I look up amaretto, I already hear the voice of the stranger from my dream: “Did you say amaretto?” When I google it, I’m in an espresso-stained apron, squirting whipped cream on a towering iced mocha, eating all the crinkle cookies I want as long as the manager doesn’t see. In the dream, I’m always worrying, wearing the suit or the apron. No in between. No muskrat-sheltering stream dresses with wild blue phlox hems. 

In A Hollow Tree

Lately, I’ve been thinking
about hollow trees, about
a door that I didn’t see.

“Where is his mom?”
my son asks,
every time I read the book to him
about a rabbit named Nicholas
who sleeps in the most secure, hygge

hollow space.
I’m in hiding, stowing acorns
in with my Flair pens//
burrowing in my wood-paneled nest.

In the office for ghosts:
no personal effects,
not even empty coffee mugs.
{Except for a teapot motif umbrella
for a few rainy weeks}

The key creaks
in the lock//

The truth is,
I would teach here
in this office for ghosts
just to have somewhere to go.