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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“Miracle of the River Pig” up at *Goblin Fruit*
My poem “Miracle of the River Pig” is live today at Goblin Fruit, and you can listen to me read it there as well! It’s a grotesque and somewhat experimental poem for me recounting my experience in the Southern California desert near the New River. I began drafting the poem in Brenda Hammack‘s fairytale workshop […]
MoreMama 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
MoreMiscarriage
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 […]
MoreDark Lady Poetry
My poems “You Don’t Want More Kids, You Claim,” and “The Eve of Destruction” have been published in Dark Lady Poetry online. I wrote the Eve poem as part of a longer poem many years ago in an undergrad creative writing class and have continued shaping it and polishing it all this time. Eventually, I […]
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