“Bone Folder,” by Leslie Contreras Schwartz (Poetry ’11)

“Bone Folder,” a poem by 2011 poetry alum Leslie Contreras Schwartz, was recently featured in the Cortland Review. Read an excerpt below:

Bone Folder

The bone folder dissects a single sheet
into half of one crisp line.

Is it possible to spare the hands, the fingers,
the body’s own bones and muscles?

But the work requires manipulation
upon hidden or interior lines

the body’s cellular agendas and maps
locked behind glass with the last lady’s skull.

Read this poem in its entirety, and hear the author read it, here: https://www.cortlandreview.com/issue-88/leslie-contreras-schwartz/