Tara Campbell

The Breast

under treatment is scarred and burning red- itch swollen forming its own hot gravity warping time folding the woman’s universe around itself the disease grew in silence sneaking greedy scheming in silence left to its own division in silence for so long until only time only time only time only time will tell who will win Poem text formatted to mimic shape of breast; all black text except the word silence is gray.

Tara Campbell is a writer, teacher, and fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse. Publication credits include Masters Review, Wigleaf, Electric Literature, CRAFT Literary, Uncharted Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Escape Pod/Artemis Rising. She’s the author of two novels, two hybrid collections, two short story collections, and a chapbook of sestinas.

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