You won’t remember all he did to you, evidence notwithstanding, tawny eyelashes and pale arms suffocated in shadow, strips of your skin curled away, your body a vessel, spilled, then filled with ash, a window overlooking your ruin a part of the illusion. There will be moments– reminders, the awful music of salacious syllables […]
Kari Gunter-Seymour
Kari Gunter-Seymour is a ninth generation Appalachian. Her poetry collections include A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen, winner of the 2020 Ohio Poet of the Year Award and Serving. Her poems appear in numerous journals and publications including Verse Daily, Rattle, ONE, Poem-a-Day, The NY Times, and on her website: www.karigunterseymourpoet.com. She is the founder/executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project (WOAP) (www.womenofappalachia.com) and editor of the WOAP anthology series, Women Speak. She is a recipient of a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and Poet Laureate of Ohio.