Bio
Daniel Schulz is a writer known for his publications in journals such as Mirage, Gender Forum, Fragmented Voices, Versification, Outcast Press Journal, The Wild Word, Steel Jackdaw, and Flora Fiction, as well as publications in anthologies such as Heart/h (Fragmented Voices 2021), Eat Your Heart Out (Profils Americain 2022), and the catalog Get Rid of Meaning (Walther König 2022). In 2022 he was nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize.
Daniel Schulz
Saint of Scars
You are the saint of my scars,
of my parents screams inside my skull,
of prayers and catechisms of hurt
carved into my flesh like roots
of the most curious flower.
I wear the medallion of your memory
around my neck like a talisman
able to ward off demons
haunting me from my past.
And although I know
it's merely an invention of my mind,
I still perform exorcisms with it.