You wrestled against the clutches of brothers and cousins, etched lessons in your muscle, broke tendencies, rerouted synapse with unwritten chapters entitled, Risk, Pain, and Tolerance. Though pale and tender as your own, you clawed your way into their flesh; red scratches and waning moons of bruise. You carved a language of ferocious prey and […]
kierstin bridger
Kierstin Bridger
Kierstin Bridger is a Colorado writer and winner of the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, the ACC Writer’s Studio and was short-listed for the Manchester Poetry Competition. She is editor of Ridgway Alley Poems and Co-Director of Open Bard Poetry Series. Her book Demimonde is recently out by Lithic Press. You can find more of her […]