Curl fingers around scapula. Hard. Twist wrist to gash bone against tendon. Squeeze so that the bone marrow pressures between insides of every osteoblast. Feel it mechanistically before prying open like grasping still steaming shell to search for tenderest roe, fifteen minutes, no more no less according to my mother. Claws waving away at nothing […]
Ellen Zhang
Ellen Zhang is a physician-writer who has studied under Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham and poet Rosebud Ben-Oni. She has been recognized by the DeBakey Poetry Prize, Dibase Poetry Contest, and as a National Student Poet Semifinalist. Her works appear or are forthcoming in Chestnut Review, The Shore Poetry, Hekton International, and elsewhere.