“The doctor hisses a small yesss
that lingers and I see a bird,
worm in its grasp, the body
in and out of the earth,
except it’s my leg and my vein
and I should look but I’m learning
I don’t always have to.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Varicosities” by Rebecca Brock from Vol. 34:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Rebecca Brock‘s work appears in The Threepenny Review, Literary Mama, River Heron Review, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. In 2022 she won The Comstock Review’s Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest, the Kelsay Women’s Poetry Contest and the Editor’s Choice Award at Sheila-Na-Gig. Idaho-born, she lives in Virginia with her family. You can find more of her work at www.rebeccabrock.org