A Poem for You: After Anchorage IV Joan Naviyuk Kane
admin2023-09-11T12:44:01-04:00After Anchorage IV Joan Naviyuk Kane of gadolinium, November-veined, copper on the tongue & summoning sleep & ether though wide-awake after click & whir & click again of excision & extraction & artery notched & every hand in the dim back room summoned to press the bloodied breast to bone & told to find calm & stay calm & O type O negative & calm & fuck the radiologist who would remember the day years after, bumbling mutters & with whiskey-thick fingers on black Friday & routine gone awry & no luck for transfusion & hours later [...]