Birthing Season
BY SUSIE SWANTON
Bruises cuff my ankle. "A woman drips and stinks," he said skinning a rabbit. Seventeen stitches to my navel and I see what he means about the clean kill of a bull, the subtle extraction of head from body.
Bruises cuff my ankle. "A woman drips and stinks," he said skinning a rabbit. Seventeen stitches to my navel and I see what he means about the clean kill of a bull, the subtle extraction of head from body.
SUSIE SWANTON'S poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the cream city review and The North Central Review. She performed in the 2009 entry of the Encyclopedia Show that featured slices of John Wayne Gacy's brain.
