“Wish Fulfillment,” by Shannon K. Winston (Poetry ’18)

Shannon K. Winston, a 2018 poetry alum, was recently featured in the LEON Literary Review. Read an excerpt of “Wish Fulfillment” below:

Wish Fulfillment

                                                   Paul Klee Pink Springs in Deep Winter, 1932

Spectacular: the way pink petals open
               against an equally pink
sky. Each brush stroke: a stem

             that connects to other stems,
to fine lines, and blooming buds.
             If I look closely,

I see a map, cracked
             glass, and tiny veins.
The blueprint of my own clumsy

               body, too, projected onto the clouds.
My ribs, my crooked teeth, the scar
              on my right cheek.

My hard, unassuming breasts.
             My legs, bruised from
knocking into objects

              I forget are there…

Read the rest of this poem here: http://leonliteraryreview.com/issue-8-shannon-k-winston/