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earthbound
EMMA C. FELLOWS
i was born a girl in a bird
body i was born a bird
in a girl body flightless
feathered plucked pink
translucent skin possessed by
the ability of speech
i can’t talk but i might
if my tongue is severed
crow style / magpie mimic
memory i’ve always loved
shining things what did you
say pretty bird whistles
pretty good how are you
and i know there is the power
of flight in my hollow
bones but it is the flesh
of my breasts which
you will feast fat
and fast too much
like a human
keeping me
Emma C. Fellows is a recent graduate from The New School’s Creative Writing MFA and is a Brooklyn based poet. She was born near Detroit and is a child of the Great Lakes. Emma enjoys birding, considering memory, is obsessed with her pet cat Nyx, and believes in ghosts.
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