Denise Leslie Bickford is a queer poet from midcoast Maine. Her work has been included in Stolen Island and Glint literary magazines. She received her MFA from Boise State University in May 2016. She currently lives in Bend, Oregon with her partner.
babka
how knitting is denying that you have
skin like that which you eat : the fur of
others over pocked white flesh
a blindfold: your husband in front of you
hunts the roots right from the ground
but can only grasp: cannot reft it
from the ground: nor can you with your
dimming eyes : all you really need it seems
hands with which to hold the quarry