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Sarah Harsh
Blighted
after “Get your cut throat off my knife" by Diane di Prima
You see, what they don’t get
is that when your
baby dies inside you, sometimes there is nothing to cut
out. It’s like a lump in your throat,
not a thing you can scrape off.
When I saw that hollow blackness inside my
womb, I would have killed for the knife.
Sarah Harsh is a writer, educator, and mother living outside Chicago. She holds a PhD in English with a focus on Irish women’s writing from Emory University. Her work has been published in Reductress, Feminist Review, New Hibernia Review, Reading Ireland, and elsewhere.
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