Elizabeth Estella is a poet, memoirist, and author of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Columbia University, she received an MFA in poetry from New York University. She lives with her daughter in Paterson, New Jersey.

Rosemary

by Elizabeth Estella

Some afternoons I feel about myself
how the Kennedys must have felt about
their daughter Rosemary. A wildness
and all the ways I could never be
classy enough to pull off pearls or clam
my feral mouth. I’ve never had a butter knife
taken to any of my lobes,

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