Stefanie Kirby
Daughter Speaks
“I’ve seen it both ways,” the daughter says, “yolk as a river and yolk as wreckage.” Some nights the trees bleed like faucets. Bodies whittled to sanctuary, hollowed with tools we don’t have. Other nights I try to clear yolk from blocked pipes, but it coats my body like paint. The daughter quiets.
Stefanie Kirby lives and writes along Colorado’s Front Range. Her debut chapbook, Fruitful, is the winner of the 2023 Adrift Chapbook Contest, forthcoming from Driftwood Press. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net, and appear in The Massachusetts Review, The Maine Review, The Cincinnati Review, SAND, wildness, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.