carcinoma of the cervix
I plant the kitten
who was
a kinetic blur beneath
camellia buds about
to burst
in the Delta soil
inside me
January rain
we are children on the verge
of breakdown spilling
out into the
yard past-trotted by
a loose rottweiler
neatly struck in the street
a white pickup w/ monster truck tires
yoga for the pain
and to open
my hips this world
too fragile
to give to a child anyway
a trickle of blood on the concrete
another pocket in the Mississippi mud
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Maia Elgin
lives in the Mississippi Delta with her two cats, dog,
and person. She has a chapbook, The Jennifer,
with Birds of Lace and two poems in Rhythm & Bone's
YANYR anthology. Her work has also been seen in Dark
Marrow, Tarpaulin Sky, Ghost Town, Indigest, and Glitter
Pony and is forthcoming in Cordella Magazine. With an
MFA from LSU, Maia is an Assistant Professor at Delta
State University.
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