It made no sense how something that felt so good thieved me of choice, why my own flesh nursed new life only to spontaneously discard it, later every word tasted like debris in a clenched mouth and I didn’t answer your phone calls and bled next to a stranger on the E train, my nose […]
Clara Burghelea
Clara Burghelea, MFA, is a Romanian-born poet. She is a poetry editor for different magazines and a review editor of Ezra. Her work has appeared in Ambit, Waxwing, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere. Her second poetry collection, Praise the Unburied, was published with Chaffinch Press in 2021. She is the recipient of the Robert Muroff Poetry Award.