When I finish my first book,
I wonder who’ll blurb the
unsubstantiated blows
my father landed
upside my head.
“An unforgettable voice
in fiction.”
When I finish my first book,
I wonder who’ll blurb the
unsubstantiated blows
my father landed
upside my head.
“An unforgettable voice
in fiction.”
elaine corden is a bio-nix woman, currently enrolled in UBC’s MFA Creative Writing Program. When not not working on her first novel, she posts comics at https://medium.com/@elainecorden. This poem is published as part of the No Comment project.
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