Emma Gorenberg earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and has a degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. She won Second Place in Narrative’s Third Annual Poetry Contest. Gorenberg lives in Philadelphia, where she writes with the poetry collaboration WCWPCCS.

Rumor of the Body

by Emma Gorenberg

1.

Not yet thesis,
not yet map, though it tries
for this, for sure:

arcades of vessel
and their looping whorls,
pleura’s ordered bounding,


the muscle’s rows—
still. An inroad here,
a weakness, easy enough.
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