Renee Emerson
Renee Emerson is a homeschooling mom of six, and the author of Keeping Me Still (Winter Goose Publishing, 2014), Threshing Floor (Jacar Press, 2016), and Church Ladies (Fernwood Press, forthcoming 2022). Her poetry has been published in Cumberland River Review, The Windhover, and Poetry South. She adjunct teaches online for Indiana Wesleyan University, and blogs about poetry, grief, and motherhood.
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Secret
My firstborn cups her hands over her mouth to catch the blood, as if holding a secret. Her lip, bitten through, swelling a betrayal. I already knew the body’s disloyalty— how it may defer healing, breathing, feed the begging sacrifices of love to the priests, never more godlike than when dying. I will […]
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The Body’s Betrayal
Renee Emerson on living with grief and writing about loss in her poem, “Secret”