my hands harvest like my aunt taught me like women open and offering like my aunt taught me first the knife and now skin brown and shaking split the rind each seed as if it is waiting to be born * my […]
Anna Gayle
Anna Gayle is a poet still trying to decide where she is from. She is an MFA candidate at Oregon State University whose work has appeared in Empty House Press, Identity Theory, and The Roadrunner Review. Anna writes about black womanhood, collective femininity, and family. Most of her free time is spent baking, painting, and FaceTiming her niece.