I hate it when you cough, especially if it sounds like you are choking on something— it reminds me of my father, always in a rush, running through a hotdog, pot roast, turkey, choking on his hurry. (By “hate,” I mean I am irritated: Why? Because my easily-irritated father lives on in me.) On the […]
Priscilla Atkins
Priscilla Atkins is the author of The Café of Our Departure (Sibling Rivalry Press) and Drinking the Pink (Seven Kitchens Press). Her poems and hybrids appear in Marrow, PANK, Poetry London, The Los Angeles Review and other journals.