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About Karen Schubert
Karen Schubert is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Compost Reader (Accents Publishing, 2020) and five chapbooks, most recently Dear Youngstown (NightBallet Press, 2019). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Coal Hill Review, Carbombs to Cookie Tables: the Youngstown Anthology II (Belt Publishing), Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, and Best American Poetry Online. Her awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Headlands Center for the Arts. She is Director of Lit Youngstown.
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Audrey cut
Cut me.
Slashed my wrists
Blamed me.
Mid breath. Father spins as a white and khaki pinwheel on a black marbled floor. His hands plunge into his thirty-six-year-old chest. I digress. Grandma exhales in an olive-green tank. She drowns before her oxygen-filled spouse. I regress. Mom’s dad…
When she kissed one
girl because her boyfriend spit
creative words out of his twisted mouth.