Eileen Winn

My Grandmother Recreates Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam in Brown County, Ohio

Indigo stew clouds
cover the dry
pocket of house—
from the window, a storm
lathers miles of flush
fields. At home’s center
you see your own arm
unstruck, grasping
neatly the silver
spatula. You love
the iron pan
searing pork
you cut
to fit, made fit
to eat. Rain
serves lightning
through the walls.
It licks the wires
where your cooking
heat is from.
It finds you
through the range
first, then the meat,
then closes in
through the metal
electric searing
fingers of your favorite
hand. A circuit.
You
a switch, on
for everything you
made & made
you.

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Eileen Winn is an agender poet working on their MFA at Florida Atlantic University while also editing at Swamp Ape Review and Alien Lit Mag. You can find their work at Purpled Palm Press in the Breakup Book, bone & ink press and elsewhere. Without purple pens, much of their work would not exist.