The Witch

We try the old ways

Wild geranium 

To stop the bleeding

Devil’s clothesline 

For the burns and sores

But our apron strings fall

Loose our shoes will not stay

Tied the beds rise up

We wind up on the floor

The clothes hung on the line 

Torn off till all we can do 

Is spread ourselves out on the grass

And wait.

Tina Parker’s new poetry collection will be published in late fall 2020. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Another Offering and the full-length poetry collection Mother May I. Her work has received support from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and has appeared in Still: The Journal, Pen+Brush, Rattle, Literary Mama, and PMS: poemmemoirstory.

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