Alice Pettway is a former Lily Peter fellow, Raymond L. Barnes Poetry Award winner, and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her first full-length collection, The Time of Hunger | O Tempo de Chuva, is available now from Salmon Poetry. A second book, Moth, is forthcoming in 2019. Currently, she lives and writes in Shanghai.
Morning
The teat in my fist
squirts, misses steel,
hits straw. I am as thirsty
for lost milk as the calf
mewling in its stall.
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Insomnia*