The rooster no longer cocks
his doodle doo at me now
that I can’t hatch eggs.
Old hen: all fruitless
tubes and bristled
chin. Explaining
the sestina to freshmen
yesterday, I farted. What’s
next? Leak of urine, I guess,
unexpected, like the day
in eighth grade when I felt
the pinch of a tiny hand
wring my insides: the slide,
the trickle, the long walk
to the desk for a hall pass praying
nothing showed. Years later
when I’d say thank you,
Jesus, or god damn.
–Sarah Freligh,
A Brief Natural History of an American Girl (2012)
Accents Publishing
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Sarah Freligh is the author of Sort of Gone (Turning Point Books, 2008). Her work has appeared in The Sun, Rattle, Brevity, Barn Owl Review, Cimarron Review, Iowa Woman, Third Coast, Tar River Poetry, and Painted Bride Quarterly and on Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac.” Among her awards are a 2009 poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a poetry grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation in 2006, and an Artist’s Exchange grant from the New York State Council for the Arts in 1997. She is a visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.
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