Stefanie Kirby
Security
A woman with three wombs holds a peach in her hand. The peach bursts into flame and sprouts wings. Still, the peach won’t fly. The peach harbors an anchor heavy as grain at its core. The woman takes a bite of the blazing peach, and grain pours from the hole in its body. There’s plenty to fill all three wombs. She watches the sun setting over the waves of grain, considers who to feed.
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.