By Tara Ballard
March 18, 2018
And so we begin
the difficult work of
re-membering the body:
sewing together ribs
broken by multiple bullets,
mapping the path
love once walked across
the brown, bare chest
About the Author
Tara Ballard is from Alaska. Her first collection, House of the Night Watch, is the winner of the 2016 Many Voices Project through New Rivers Press, to be published in 2018. Her poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in The Bellingham Review, Poetry Northwest, The Southampton Review, One, and other literary magazines.
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