Game

I thought we were playing a game

in a forest that day.

I ran as my mother chased me.

But she’d been stung by a bee.

Or bitten by a snake.

She shouted my name, which

even as a child I knew was not

“Stop. Please. I’m dying.”   …[Keep Reading]…

Laura is the author of the poetry collection Space, In Chains (2011, Copper Canyon Press) and The Raising: A Novel (2011, Harper Perennial).