New Patient Intake Form In the beginning, there was a window I pried the blinds to make light of my losses I fished my hands into and shattered the water What a hook I was doubled in the beginning In the beginning My mouth and the gasp upon impact The skull intact and the brain increasing activity where the neurons didn’t die Slowly I filled the form X X X My torso scored in order of severity only a diagram Previously published in World Literature Today. Janine Joseph is the author of Driving without a License, winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her libretti for the Houston Grand Opera/HGOco include What Wings They Were, “On This Muddy Water,” and From My Mother's Mother. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University. Comments are closed.
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