Reabsorption Elegy
Daughter, I won’t make milk for you anymore. The body retreats. It reclaims miracles. Published in Glint Literary Journal.
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Mama Hulas with the Eggslice Player One Last Time
My poem published at Tupelo Quarterly. “the skate-floor-turned-dance- for-your-life-floor, just beginning to understand I was the reason for her dizziness and egglonging” –Jenn Givhan
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Jennifer Givhan Miscarriage In a field where a hot air balloon waits tethered, children balancing umbrellas and wearing party hats plant birthday bouquets; where they grow the swollen bulbs push open the soil smelling of clay and fingerpaint. Even the sky celebrates in reverse, hanging like pigtails from a jungle gym. Not many daffodils or […]
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