Also, my piece wasn't chosen for Rattle's Poets Respond this week, so I can share it here with you instead.
It was inspired by news of a Russian woman who learned that she'd lived her whole life with a needle in her head - clearly a failed attempt at infanticide in the 1940s, when life was hard, and many thought better days would never come.
How striking, no? All the things that do not kill us... even when we're sure they must.
@MLClark Just read about that the other day. Well written.
Thank you, Nick. I hope all's faring well in your slice of this strange world these days.