notes on observing the body
Audrey Gidman
glorious
tree structure the body
up and out like a flapping bird
heart
wrists holding
the same
bright twist
as branches
spine as stem as mountain—bent
mounds of stone
no clear
way of gleaning the
lung
alphabet
no concrete in
the teeth in the knees
Audrey Gidman is a queer poet living on the Kennebec River in central Maine. Her chapbook, body psalms, was the recipient of the 2018 Elyse Wolf Prize and is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press. Her poems can be found in mutiny! magazine, Q/A Poetry, Confrontation, The Rush, Pinky Thinker Press and elsewhere. She received her BFA from the University of Maine at Farmington.