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.
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...
