What It’s Like to Report
Wounds fresh as seed or banished to a vault,
you drag out in the sun (abuse, assault)—
though scared. You’ve pondered what you’ll jeopardize,
yet scramble fighter jets to cloudless skies—
such righteous anger! Do you feel your power?
Just then: the second plane, the second tower.
Nicole Caruso Garcia (she/her) is the author of OXBLOOD (Able Muse Press), which received the International Book Award for narrative poetry. Her work appears in Best New Poets, Light, Mezzo Cammin, ONE ART, Plume, Rattle, RHINO, and elsewhere. She serves as associate poetry editor at Able Muse and as an executive board member at Poetry by the Sea, an annual poetry conference in Madison, CT. Visit her at nicolecarusogarcia.com.
The Marbled Sigh 