Gina Abelkop
Everything in Me Attends to Violence
Hived in an informal
decay-lace of shame
I pull them sheets
over my legs
flatten one cloth
mountain ‘gainst
my palm It’s nearly
spring The house
is growing rooms
Gina Abelkop lives in the foothills and swims in the river. Her wayward book of poems, Darling Beastlettes, came out in 2012 from Apostrophe Books. Visit her online at themoonstop.blogspot.com.