Postpartum with Fridge
Stefanie Kirby
Nothing says eat like your body,
your chest that opens to need.
You beg to be filled with small
miracles: milk, leftovers, eggs.
You beg for your insides to be
consumed. Piecemeal, feeding
this hunger. Emptying bodies
always want more to swallow.
your chest that opens to need.
You beg to be filled with small
miracles: milk, leftovers, eggs.
You beg for your insides to be
consumed. Piecemeal, feeding
this hunger. Emptying bodies
always want more to swallow.
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Stefanie Kirby lives and writes along Colorado’s Front Range. Her debut chapbook, Fruitful, is the winner of the 2023 Adrift Chapbook Contest, forthcoming from Driftwood Press. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net, and appear in The Massachusetts Review, The Maine Review, The Cincinnati Review, Cola Literary Review, SAND, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.
Social Media Twitter: @MsStefanieKirby |
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