Authors /
Renee Emerson
Burial song
Just last November
I laid you down
in that thicket
of snow, a quiet
safe place for you
to dissemble,
breadcrumbs in pond
water, the minnows...
Three poems
Naomi in famine
Ruth 1:1–2
First portions to my husband, then the boys.
I eat what’s left behind, grow willowy, more
like a girl than I ever was....
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