Yes, #MeToo

Carol Lynne Knight

but, not the details —
as I keep stalling
in the middle
of that paragraph.

what I didn’t
know at 13 —
my young confusions —
my eyes fallen shut.

it was virginal,
vaginal,
& a single tear
that caught
& splayed across
my left cheek.

the kitchen floor,
hard & gritty,
a dusty noodle
under the stove.

© 2019 Carol Lynne Knight 

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Carol Lynne Knight is co-director of Anhinga Press. Her book Quantum Entanglement (Apalachee Press) was released in 2010. Her poetry has appeared in Louisiana Literature, Tar River Review, Poetry Motel, Earth’s Daughters, The Ledge, Slipstream, Broome Review, Comstock Review, Epicenter, Redactions, Iconoclast, Epicenter, HazMat, and So to Speak, and in the anthologies Off the Cuffs (Soft Skull Press) and Touched by Eros (Live Poets Society). She is a fellow of the Hambidge Center for the Arts and the Bowers House. She is the co-editor of Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.