Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, Tin House, and Poetry. She is the author of Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals.

Nessie Wants to Watch Herself Doing It

Doing what, I don’t know, being alive. The green
of her is a scum on the surface, she would like
to look at herself. Should I have a memory?
she wonders. Of mother washing my frogskin
in muddy water? I do...