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Catherine-Esther Cowie

CATHERINE-ESTHER COWIE is from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia and has lived in Canada and the US. She is a graduate of the Pacific University low-residency MFA program. Her writing has appeared in the Penn Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Forklift Ohio, Flock Literary Journal and Moko Magazine, The Common, Potomac Review, Southern Humanities Review and Portland Review.

When the Storytellers Found Me
by Catherine-Esther Cowie

November 19, 2020 Contributed By: Catherine-Esther Cowie

Most nights I don’t think of it,  the blood on my teeth,    my white dress, stained with soot and wet grass,   how the mud hugged my feet  like bedroom slippers.   I hid in the bush until  the storytellers found me.   They enjoy the music of split-open things, stretched my skin into […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: November 19, 2020

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