The Woman Who Is to Be Sawn in Half

← v14n2, Fall 2015

though the issue is of

course not where the soul

is housed but where not

today like a phantom limb

& why or not tomorrow

& since when did the

snip stop paying rent O

so well done better half

keep on your red wool

thinking cap is what she

Sue D. Burton

Sue D. Burton’s poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal , Midway Journal , Green Mountains Review , Shenandoah , New Ohio Review , and Verse Daily . She earned her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and trained as a physician’s assistant at the Vermont Women’s Health Center. Photo by Jan Schultz