Edytta Anna Wojnar
Curse
May a nicotine haze
wrinkle your face into a dry leaf
maggots eat
May cellulite like spiced latte
spill on your thighs and your
sagging breasts
May remorse the size of Pangea
remain in your chest
for 100 million years
May you miss him
while he minces the fossils
of whatever
you think you've had
May my curse mutate
into forgiveness –
a song less blackbird
Bio
Born and raised in Poland, Edytta Anna Wojnar now lives with her husband in northern New Jersey, where she teaches at William Paterson University. She is the author of chapbooks: Stories Her Hands Tell (2013) and Here and There (2014) published by Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Lumina, Calyx, Paterson Literary Review, Narrative Northeast, Cagibi, and Ponder Review, among others.