I promise to hold it tight,tuck it into my bralike money or Kleenex,warm its little wordsagainst my breastsas once I held a babyand found a way to sustainthe impossible skull,wondered at the fontanelbeating a pulse(tic toc late after the noon hour)—an operatic scuffle of Brecht figureslamenting the State,not unlike this morningof chronic pain givenby god knows what devilinto my … [Read more...] about Give Me My Green Hope, By: Judith Skillman
Judith Skillman
About Judith Skillman
Judith Skillman’s poems have appeared in Commonweal, Threepenny Review, Zyzzyva, and other literary journals. She has received awards from Academy of American Poets and Artist Trust. Oscar the Misanthropist won the 2021 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. Her recent collection is Subterranean Address, New & Selected Poems, Deerbrook Editions 2023.
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