Cutters
There is a circle
on my breast
Tragedy green
Pure competence
Blown open Beneath
Mean lips
Free and natural and kind of bad for the enamel
*
If I want to insist upon
Something
it is the
How I remember what I’ve seen
—How I’m supposed to
Retrofit violence
Veneer
My duenna
My domina
My dictating spirit hand
Grace Ezra is originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work has been previously published or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, Raleigh Review, South Carolina Review and elsewhere. She is the founder and managing editor of Hood of Bone Review.