Two Poems
Words By Emma Bolden, Art By Hailey Renee Brown
I am a woman at the age of thirty-eight. It isimpossible to determine how I am still or at allalive. Already I have been by scalpel rendered incapable of producing children. My surgeon left mewith no coping mechanisms other than the assurancethat he is a very good surgeon. It is impossible for me to determine…
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Emma Bolden
Emma Bolden is the author of House Is an Enigma (Southeast Missouri State University Press), medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press), and Maleficae (GenPop Books). The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, her work has appeared in The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Best American Poetry, and journals such as the Mississippi Review, The Rumpus, StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, New Madrid, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, and the Greensboro Review. She serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief for Tupelo Quarterly.
Hailey Renee Brown
Hailey Renee Brown is a freelance illustrator born and raised in Mid Michigan. With a bachelor’s in Zoology, she spent years formerly working as a field biologist. Moving across the country to the east coast, she also moved from science to art and graduated from The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. Hailey works as a freelance colorist and illustrator for a wide assortment of clientele, including comic anthologies, fantasy authors, and Dynamite Entertainment.
