For Michael You grip your youngest son by his two ankles and peel him open from his diaper like a lid from a tin can. He is rolled back, his rubbery bottom aimed at the sky, so you can clean the ample spattering of shit between his cheeks. You get some on your hand, but […]
Lauren Schmidt
Lauren Schmidt
Lauren Schmidt is the author of three collections of poetry: Two Black Eyes and a Patch of Hair Missing; The Voodoo Doll Parade, selected for the Main Street Rag Author’s Choice Chapbook Series; and Psalms of The Dining Room, a sequence of poems about her volunteer experience at a soup kitchen in Eugene, Oregon.Her work […]