IMMACULATE

            ​by Hannah Cohen 

you ate stained glass
expecting to grow a rose
window in your belly,
every shard a memory
of color wholly illuminated.
but heaven is a wheel
of silence, her imperfect
eternity revealing the wreck
​rooted in your womb.

Hannah Cohen lives in Virginia and is a MFA candidate at Queens University of Charlotte. She's also Poetry Editor of Firefly Magazine. Recent publications and forthcoming work include The Tishman Review, Public Pool, Vagabond City, Unlost Journal, and others. She's on Twitter as @hcohenpoet.
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