[ When I Find Her ]
She is effeminate and ready
I am planning
to descend
and descend. To
find everything intimate
and make it pet
She is emasculated and deflated, unable
to talk about pain now
I will fall asleep inside the rooms inside
my own body,
I will cut
the borders of her
Kimberly Swendson is a poet and translator from Colorado. She received her M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame and her M.F.A. in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa where she held an Iowa Arts Fellowship. Her work can be found in ballast, Bruiser Magazine, and elsewhere.
The Marbled Sigh 