July, at the Women’s Clinic
By Jennifer Hyde Dracos-Tice
Jennifer Hyde Dracos-Tice (she/her) has poems published in Witness, Psaltery & Lyre, Crab Orchard Review, Literary Mama, Whale Road Review, Still: The Journal (2016 Judge’s Choice Award), and elsewhere. Her first full-length poetry collection, Lodged in The Belly, and her first chapbook, Roar of All Septembers, are forthcoming from Main Street Rag. A long-time high school English teacher with literature degrees from Brown (BA) and Indiana University (MA), she lives in Florida with her wife.
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This feels so chilling. I was really relieved by the end.