The Miscarriage: A Poem
The Miscarriage
I am a battleship, sinking.
When the USS West Virginia went down
at Pearl Harbor, the clean-up crews
could hear tapping from inside the ship.
They knew there were men inside, alive,
but they couldn’t reach them,
had no way to save them.
Eventually, the tapping slowed.
After sixteen days, it stopped
From AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss & Grief, the debut title from worker-owned printer and publisher Radix Media.
The book launches on April 26th with a reading and wine reception at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. See the Facebook event page to RSVP!
Feature photo by Mike Wilson on Unsplash
About the Author
Ingrid Jendrzejewski has been published in places like Passages North, The Los Angeles Review, The Conium Review, Jellyfish Review, and Rattle, and her novella-in-flash, “Things I Dream About When I’m Not Sleeping,” is available in the anthology How to Make a Window Snake, published by Ad Hoc Fiction.
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