Buttons, coins, paper clips I slipped into my mouth; although my parents warned of choking and germs, I couldn’t stop tasting the world. I must have been three or four when I sucked a butterfly ring, bright plastic from a Winn Dixie quarter machine, into my throat. It lodged firm, like […]
Juliana Gray
Juliana Gray’s third poetry collection is Honeymoon Palsy (Measure Press 2017). Recent poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Atticus Review, Pine Hills Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. An Alabama native, she lives in western New York and teaches at Alfred University.