aortic rupture, I’m
one lifetime bleeding into another, sick
of reliving the residue — but
what remains unfinished, I’m
branded with a scar so deep that the pretty
child they’re praying for won’t be that baby
Notes
After “Hand in My Pocket” by Alanis Morissette.
about the author
Samantha Lucia (she/her) is a queer poet in the American South. Publications include MENACE, Corporeal, Writers Resist, Twisted Tongue, Poetries in English, Witches Magazine, and January House, among others. Her ancestors won’t stay quiet.
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