This is a poem about how the ocean loves us back. How its salt-scarred fingers persuade skin to abandon fascia, muscle to untangle from joint, expects even the simplest animals to translate flesh into food, suffer into sleep. How it holds a woman in its dark throat, wombs her warm until the moon slits itself […]
Kami Westhoff
Kami Westhoff’s chapbook Sleepwalker won the 2016 Dare to Be award. Her collaborative chapbook Your Body a Bullet was published recently by Unsolicited Press. Her work has appeared in Meridian, Carve, Third Coast, and other journals. She teaches Creative Writing at Western Washington University, in Bellingham.