On
Meeting the Surgeon
by Melissa Marr
Feathers
fell like ash
sterile
floors strewn with grey soot
from
her bleeding wings
cauterized
by his soft hands
while
we wept in futile rage
About the Author:
Melissa
Marr teaches undergraduate composition and lit in whichever state she resides
that year. Currently, she lives in Southern California with her spouse and two
children. In Fall 2003, her early
New Year's Resolution was to write texts that were neither lecture notes nor
academic theory. So far, it's great
fun. Forthcoming and current
(non-academic) publications include fiction in Shadowed Realms, Flytrap,
and Aoife's Kiss, as well as poetry in Star*Line, Dreams and
Nightmares, and Brutarian.
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