“Ode to Indicia” by Nancy Mitchell (Poetry ’91)

Poetry alum Nancy Mitchell has a poem in Quartet Journal.

Read an excerpt below.

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Ode to Indicia

Heavy as an X-ray apron, you lay me down,

              swaddled baby, cradle settled.

No more bolting awake in a twist of sweat-wet

               sheets from dreams of spitting splintered

teeth while defending my thesis,

Read the rest of the piece here: Ode to Indicia.