Reabsorption Elegy
Daughter, I won’t make milk for you anymore. The body retreats. It reclaims miracles. Published in Glint Literary Journal.
Moremotherhood poetry
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 […]
MoreLovesong of the Barren Woman, Poems & An Interview with Jennifer Givhan
2. Looking Glass The image in the mirror appears whole though I swear I am a fragment. Columnar self, I am my own grotesque other body. I fell asleep inside my pod and woke to red, where oceans are dry as salt flats, where red means lost and lost means dead. (Read the […]
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