Alex Fabrizio’s poems have recently appeared in Subtropics, Southeast Review, and Sou'wester, where her work was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook Determinant will be published in 2014 by Kent State University Press and was the winner of the 2012 Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Competition. She has an MFA from Ohio State University and will enter the PhD program in English and comparative literature at Columbia University this year.
During pregnancy, cells cross / through the flat disk of placenta / in both directions—mother // gives the fetus her body / and takes it back. They aren't one.
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