Time is a fire as tired as a tunnel and as tiredas a verb. Doris feels filled at night witha bitter mustard. She has given and got as hardas the rest, a princess of chafe, a sorcererof sore and apprentice to fault. She has winkedwhile the moon rolled its sour eye. Damn it, she wants […]
Author: Gretchen Primack
Gretchen Primack is the author of Visiting Days (Willow Books Editors Select Series 2019), set in a maximum-security men’s prison, as well as two other poetry collections: Kind (Post-Traumatic Press), which explores the dynamic between humans and (other) animals, and Doris’ Red Spaces (Mayapple Press). She also co-wrote, with Jenny Brown, The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals (Penguin Avery). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, and other journals. Primack has administrated and taught with college programs and poetry workshops in prison for many years, and she moonlights at an indie bookstore in Woodstock, NY.
The Woman I’ve Become
Who cares?The world’s legis broken in two places,its wing in three. It hates the cagescrusting its body:the cages of weeddealers, the cagesof hens. The woman I’ve become wantsto open every one.You? Gretchen PrimackGretchen Primack is the author of Visiting Days (Willow Books Editors Select Series 2019), set in a maximum-security men’s prison, as well as two other poetry collections: Kind (Post-Traumatic […]