ROOM:10.23
Child Therapy
by Laine Derr
What animal would she be?
I bought a bride
who speaks a tongue
I do not know, lips
tasting the weight
of sugar. From twelve
to twenty her pickled
father, laughing as he
sang, prepared a path
for me, rinsed with blood.
A deer in moonlight, tall
and gravid, is still a deer.
Bibliography and External Links
- Laine Derr holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming from J Journal, Full Bleed + The Phillips Collection, ZYZZYVA, Portland Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere
- Email: lainederr@gmail.com
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