To create a battlefield, draw a line. then send renewable boys into stitch it down. Band, tourniquet:which half is supposed to die? Blood falling in, the earthonly more dark. Then green, green -as belt, ribbon, scar, strictly held spineaching down the center. Big...
Elaine has an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and now lives in Philadelphia. She recently published 'AND AND,' a chapbook of poems and photographs with photographer Jan C. Almquist, focusing on her family's experiences during the Korean War and after. Her poems were recently published in Sugar House Review, jubilat, and The Hopkins Review, and are forthcoming in Salmagundi. She is also an active ceramicist and can be found—most days—with her hands in clay.