In my earlier foolish marriage,
my husband thought it best to confess
everything.
This made cicatrici (scars)—
natural debris from attempts at healing.
When he tried to make up with gifts
like pearls, they turned into mermaid’s tears—
small plastic pellets that poison the seas.
By Susana H. Case
Learn more about Susana here!
my husband thought it best to confess
everything.
This made cicatrici (scars)—
natural debris from attempts at healing.
When he tried to make up with gifts
like pearls, they turned into mermaid’s tears—
small plastic pellets that poison the seas.
By Susana H. Case
Learn more about Susana here!
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Susana H. Case, professor at the New York Institute of Technology, has recent work in many journals, including Hawai’i Pacific Review, Portland Review and Potomac Review. She is the author of the chapbooks The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press), Anthropologist In Ohio (Main Street Rag Publishing Company), The Cost Of Heat (Pecan Grove Press), and Manual of Practical Sexual Advice (Kattywompus Press). An English-Polish reprint of The Scottish Café, Kawiarnia Szkocka, was published by Opole University Press in Poland. Her book, Salem In Séance (WordTech Editions) will be released in 2013. Please visit her online at: http://iris.nyit.edu/~shcase/.
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