Spawn

from Children of the Anxious City by Al Russell

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everything smelled of mossy wood
at the stream behind my house
I scooped fistfuls of baked mud

the hollows spoke
of the markings of animals

foxes, bird dogs

but we couldn't find any
so imagined them
chocolate ice cream smeared around your mouth,
grotesque harlequin

and I pretended I had gotten
too much mustard on my clothes to wear them

we took them off
when it rained
I was small but I felt something
sticky between my legs
when I put my toes in the cool wet leaves
my tiny nipples stood erect

I cut my foot
on a sliver of green glass
behind a wall of earth

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from Children of the Anxious City, released January 14, 2019

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Al Russell North Carolina

Al Russell is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. She is a poetry editor at Outlook Springs literary journal. She is also an ordained minister of the Church of the Subgenius. She lives in North Carolina.