Elegy
for the platform I built of untreated cedar wood planks from Home Depot, that I painted madder yellow, overlaid with Scandinavian flowers like something...
Uninhabited
That January we ate ramen, broth sharpas vinegar. Sipped the sizzling disappointment
while snow cascaded from the second flooruntil our city grew unrecognizable. By April
love was...
With Wind
The curtain breathes
when I give birth
to death, its push
from open windows:
out. They mark
my door with a leaf
to say, There is
no breath inside
this...
After Two Years, the Midwife Explains
pre{eclampsia—a condition comparable
to milk fever
in cows and dogs}
which explains
how my blood soared in the days after
as drops of milk rivered
how...
Statistics
“An estimated 23 million miscarriages occur every year worldwide, translating to 44 pregnancy losses each minute.”
Quenby, Siobhan “Miscarriage matters: the epidemiological, physical, psychological, and...
