Colleen S. Harris
What We Call Each Other
Beautiful, Darling,
Honey. The first married
month we delighted
in calling each other
Husband and Wife,
and Love. We lost
our names, gained
the comfort of Babe, Hon.
And before the end, Liar,
Useless, and Thief.
And now, in lowercase,
a stranger to me, the ex.
Colleen S. Harris earned her MFA from Spalding University. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her poetry collections include The Light Becomes Us, Babylon Songs (forthcoming), These Terrible Sacraments, The Kentucky Vein, God in My Throat: The Lilith Poems, and chapbooks Toothache in the Bone (forthcoming), That Reckless Sound, and Some Assembly Required. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Berkeley Poetry Review, The Louisville Review, Cider Press Review, Appalachian Heritage, and more than 70 others.