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Rachel Mennies

  • Nobody
    Nobody

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    “I read the furrow of the doctor’s brow,” Rachel Mennies writes, “as she dug inside for evidence of you.” A sequence of disjointed sonnets about thwarted fertility, Mennies’s poem, “Nobody,” speaks to an unborn child who’s still a “round void / on the ovulation strip, absent / enough estrogen to smile.” The result is rich with heartache and beauty.