Author: Kathy Engel
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"What I’m Made Of" and "My Excavated Heart" by Kathy Engel
What I’m Made Of I am a crab I am chemical dispersant spill, I am spilled spilling, fish swelter stone, I am slick, eyes burn bleed oil, nose oiled mucous, talk spits from my oil swollen lips, gurgle and sputter drip from my ears, crude ruts my cheeks, neck scar leaks oil, hair sheens nipples…
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Inaugural
Now is the time to be generous, now is the time to be brave and patient, to watch how the dove tails up, blinks, sits tight over invisible eggs. Now is the time to protect, a time to risk, now is the time to mother, to become curious, now is the time to father, the…