Lucia LoTempio
Mary Darby Is Born Standing Up
My biconcave cells were emulsified
taiga when he came back to unsolder
the woody runners of animal fat
vaulted with flashcarded royalty & German fables
about thumbs. He stretched
the walls—my sanded grove—scraping
four jowls down with orange rind,
tarring fingers. My name left
with a fox roasting—track its hole,
foster charred fur. In Czechoslovakia
they read motak—toilet paper love-lettered-
testaments written by wasted prisoners: I am my father
as a bathtub, filling from the drain.
Lucia LoTempio hails from Buffalo, NY and is currently studying literature at SUNY Geneseo. Her work has been or will be published in Bayou Magazine, Weave Magazine, The Boiler: A Journal of New Literature, Spiral Orb, and more. She was a finalist for the Black Warrior Review 10th Annual Contest in Poetry. This winter she's counting for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, reading for The Adroit Journal, and working for Writers & Books in Rochester. Here is her website.
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My biconcave cells were emulsified
taiga when he came back to unsolder
the woody runners of animal fat
vaulted with flashcarded royalty & German fables
about thumbs. He stretched
the walls—my sanded grove—scraping
four jowls down with orange rind,
tarring fingers. My name left
with a fox roasting—track its hole,
foster charred fur. In Czechoslovakia
they read motak—toilet paper love-lettered-
testaments written by wasted prisoners: I am my father
as a bathtub, filling from the drain.
Lucia LoTempio hails from Buffalo, NY and is currently studying literature at SUNY Geneseo. Her work has been or will be published in Bayou Magazine, Weave Magazine, The Boiler: A Journal of New Literature, Spiral Orb, and more. She was a finalist for the Black Warrior Review 10th Annual Contest in Poetry. This winter she's counting for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, reading for The Adroit Journal, and working for Writers & Books in Rochester. Here is her website.
Return to March 2015 Edition