They might use words that empty out of stark boxes, their mouths keeping damp corners hidden by calling me sweet, but I hear miniscule tumors in the table paper rustling. At sonogram the news-ink is already wet. In biopsy their tone is a long deep bell furling […]
Alison Heron Hruby
Alison Heron Hruby (she/hers) is an associate professor of English education at Morehead State University and lives in Lexington, Kentucky. Her poetry is published in Juste Literary, Red Tree Review, Sleet Magazine, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, and elsewhere. You can find her on X/Twitter @aheronhruby and Instagram @alliehope68