Kate Foley: Pulling Blood

Photo: Joanna C. Valente

Pulling Blood

my veins like tangled cable wires

connections unplugged

i want to be television

my veins like a tree’s fallen limbs

            torn through the storm,

            refugee from thunder

my veins like a map of the MTA

        rewire the tracks

        a stop on the F train

    i cannot even if i could

my veins like hair after the shower

        clean now

my veins like umbilical cord

        strangling the newborn

        throat reaching out for air

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Kate Foley is a writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her debut poetry collection, The Bird Hours, was published with Where Are You Press in 2017. She is the founder of Crooked Arrow Press (crookedarrowpress.com) and is so very curious about the future. Find more on her Instagram and Twitter: @acidprodigy.