My voice barbs. I shy from its pointed horns afraid to show myself stark-stripped. I listen in the shower, making the bed, in a yoga class, cooking dinner, in the dentist’s chair, in my belly in the unearthed archaeology of the unspoken. I spent last evening with all the versions of myself. How cocktail choices […]
Catherine Arra
Catherine Arra is the author of four full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks. Recent work appears in Anti-Heroin Chic, Unbroken, Impspired, Poetica Review, Piker Press, Rat’s Ass Review, and Unleash Lit. Arra is a native of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York, where she lives with wildlife and changing seasons until winter when she migrates to the Space Coast of Florida. Arra teaches part-time and facilitates local writing groups. Find her at www.catherinearra.com
Tooth Fairy
Bring me the gift of loss— baby teeth, big girl teeth this dead old molar, done chewing down years, rootless, separated from the body surrendered to silk-sack departures— mother, father, lovers, husbands, friends this house, that job, the accumulations and cost of having. Teach me to put youth, beauty fire, fury, gutting […]