“Venus Comb” by Kristin Berger, published in Earthwork, released in August 2022, by The Poetry Box Select, has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize.
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Venus Comb
All the women I know are done twisting
themselves inside out: applying eye cream,
adjusting the mirror, covering the gray,
hiding chins in tipped-up selfies.
The small moons of their ovaries
might send out one more egg,
a pilotless explorer.
They are done watching for blood.
From a softened center, vertebrae
like antennae, they listen for the scuttle
of years hoping to sit next to them,
quietly, like a rumor, like beauty.
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