My doctor warns me not to stress, not to strain, but already it’s too late, that’s why I’m here again, because of the blood and the pain and the way it interrupts dreams. She says the colonoscopy was clean aside from one small constellation of internal hemorrhoids, just a belated gift of pregnancy but also […]
Tracie Renee
Tracie Renee (she/her) is a librarian, a Publishers Weekly book reviewer, and a BOTN-nominated writer who lives and dreams in sort-of Chicago. Her poem, “Pre-Existing Conditions,” recently earned second place in the 2025 Passionfruit Poetry Prize competition. Find Tracie in HAD, Orange Blossom Review, on Bluesky (@tracierenee.bsky.social) and at https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee.