special issue 1
// p o e t r y
Post-Partum
by Cat Speranzini
If I could lose another three pounds
maybe I wouldn’t look so round, but
it’s my loose muscles that stretch and sag
and come unwound and I am but a rope unbound,
a rubber band pulled off shape, a bone that bends
until it breaks.
a closet full of useless clothes, a scale
that changes by the hour, a scar
that mocks me in the shower, water gleaming
on the surface of tissue ripped and sewn
together.
I am not a woman, but a wound
where life bloomed and left me ragged
and I’m so grateful to be a vessel,
but I do not stand on my own,
I am a mother paramount
and a person after.
about the author // Cat Speranzini
| Cat Speranzini (she/her) is an Emerson college alumni, a mother, a reader for Querencia Press, and the editor-in-chief of Grey Coven Publishing. Her third poetry collection, Of Verbena and Vitriol, is pending publication with Octave Eight Publishing. So far, her work has appeared in ten publications including The Eunoia Review, Moss Puppy Magazine, Clever Fox Lit, and Glass Gates Publishing. She was recently long-listed for the Black Fox Lit contest “Portraits of Failure.” Find her on Instagram @thepoeticfeline |
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Website: www.catsperanzini.com
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