from the back of your throat.
your cheeks like rotted snow?
and wing. I thicken like cold soup.
I wipe from your tongue.
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder is the author of the poetry collection Inked, winner of the 2014 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and her poetry appears or is forthcoming in such journals as Blackbird, The Gettysburg Review, The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, and Poet Lore. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California.