Tough
They would have named you something different if you hadn’t arrived greased and furred. In the birthing room, each attending mouth drawn into every contortion of O: grief, awe, horror, growl. Your eyes were filmy,…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Emily Rosko’s books include: Weather Inventions; Prop Rockery, winner of the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize; and Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is editor of A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line and is poetry editor for swamp pink. She is a past recipient of the Stegner and Ruth Lilly fellowships. Her poems have appeared recently in Bennington Review, Epoch, Laurel Review, New American Writing, The Offing, South Carolina Review, and Third Coast. She teaches at the College of Charleston.
They would have named you something different if you hadn’t arrived greased and furred. In the birthing room, each attending mouth drawn into every contortion of O: grief, awe, horror, growl. Your eyes were filmy,…