A piece of bone
for my birthday
smoothes out the hollow
in my neck
as though
you carved
a piece of your skeleton
for me to carry
Melissa Eleftherion is the author of field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & ten chapbooks, including trauma suture (above/ground press, 2020) & abalone (poems-for-all, 2021). Her poems & prose have been widely published in various literary journals including Entropy, La Vague, & On the Seawall, & nominated for awards including the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net. Born & raised in Brooklyn, Melissa currently lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Library, curates the LOBA Reading Series, & serves as the 2021-2023 Poet Laureate of Ukiah. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com.
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