Majoonsuo, Eastern Finland 1. Note the hair’s width (9.6 cm) and the magnification (867x). You’re a witness at an 8,000 year remove. 2. Close one eye, stare through the electron microscope. Hover over the child’s grave with the finest brush. 3. From the Stone Age, she’s now dust and fibers. Write in the margins: how […]
Shannon K. Winston
Shannon K. Winston’s book, The Girl Who Talked to Paintings (Glass Lyre Press), was published in 2021. Her individual poems have appeared in Bracken, Cider Press Review, On the Seawall, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She lives in Bloomington, IN. Find her here: https://shannonkwinston.com.
Weight
I. At 5 a.m., a woman creeps downstairs to weigh herself. Everyone is asleep. Naked, she holds her breath, steps onto the cool glass face. She closes her eyes and imagines each pound is a sand dollar. Weight is so much more bearable when beautiful. II. Outside, an old man crouches in her sunflowers and […]