Hello! This week’s Issue 20 feature is a poem by Erin Emily Ann Vance– a Master’s student here at the U of C.
Macroglossum
How still–
My lips around a head of garlic
The oil leaks around my teeth
A sludge of dirt and pungency
My knees,
Glue-y, soak,
The white acid.
Into their ridges.
Silent, blistered woman,
The blanket stained with pink.
Her neck-skin loose
Like second-hand carpet
She steps on the stained glass window
with grandmother’s boots,
The laces drag on the kitchen floor
scabbed with mud.
