What It Was Like by Catherine Klatzker

What It Was Like by Catherine Klatzker

published in Split This Rock

2016, 2nd Prize in their Abortion Rights Poetry Contest

The world was always a place of silence,of congenital shame—even before those daysin 1967, four years before you met your love. Yourstrength grew belatedly, fertilized as it was in the

knowledge that you were nothing. Your life didnot matter to anyone, except to hurt you.

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Every time you awake in your hospital bed

men in white ...