Rosalie Moffett, a finalist in the 2014 Narrative 30 Below Contest, is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed, 2025); Nervous System, winner of the National Poetry Series Prize and a New York Times New and Notable book; and June in Eden. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Southern Indiana.

Photo credit: Jacob Sunderlin

The Bathroom Wall Says: Women

by Rosalie Moffett

were the first 3-D printers. So I imagine the machine
sucking up the souls of dead objects—i.e., the gun

thrown in the sewer, the deck chair collapsed
and splintered on the freeway—and offering
them a home in the home-miracle of a prosthetic ear
People on couch
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