Some were set in their jaw, quick to anger and so on.
alloy in her mouth, tested.
surrounded as you are by hours.
about generation trauma, studies, Hongerwinter etc.
23 and me? Ashkenazi or no? Mindell from Mendelson?
Rachel Mindell is the author of Like a Teardrop and a Bullet (Dancing Girl Press) and rib and instep: honey (forthcoming from above/ground). Individual poems have appeared (or will) in Pool, DIAGRAM, Bombay Gin, BOAAT, Forklift, Ohio, The Journal, Sundog Lit and elsewhere. She works for Submittable.