Coco Owen lives in Los Angeles and has published in the Antioch Review, 1913: A Journal of Forms, CutBank, The Journal and The Feminist Wire, among other venues. She has a chapbook called Scar let Woe man (Tammy, 2016) and also serves on the board of Les Figues Press. You can see more of her work at www.cocoowenphd.com.
Mother tattered
over the bodice rob bing
Robin red-breasted: single -
double - triple - many- breasted
Artemis—moon-mother
midwife, animal-tender, hunter,
virgin-keeper. Not my
mother—my indoor mother
of drapes, porcelain,
Louis XIV decors & headless
dress forms she pinned her
worsted fantasies to.