Rachel Contreni Flynn was born in Paris in 1969 and raised in a small farming town in Indiana. Her second full-length collection of poetry, Tongue, won the Benjamin Saltman Award and was published in 2010 by Red Hen Press. Her chapbook, Haywire, was published by Bright Hill Press in 2009, and her first book Ice, Mouth, Song, was […]
Rachel Contreni Flynn
Rachel Contreni Flynn: Ravenous
– for Noah 1. The child holds on inside me: pink bat, drowsy possum. With quick teeth, I eat handfuls of bread and fruit the shape of my own body, pear juice like tears coats the flesh of my arms. 2. At night coyotes send up sparks of hunger and laughter from the frozen field. […]