My Love
By Jennifer Givhan


Stains its presence:
a red dress

hanging limp
on the wire
against the sun

or pushed out
on the hips of a
round woman

or folded neatly
in the suitcase
by your bed.

Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet who earned her Master’s Degree in English literature with an emphasis on feminist poetry and Latina motherhood at California State University Fullerton, where she was the recipient of the Graduate Equity Fellowship. She teaches composition at Fullerton and Cerritos Colleges, and she is currently applying for Ph.D. programs and working on a full-length collection of poetry. Her poems have been published in Verdad, Dash, Caesura, Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine, Third Wednesday, Cutthroat, Pinyon, Earth’s Daughters, Palabra, and Rockhurst Review. Jennifer lives in Southern California with her husband and toddler son.

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