Elizabeth Metzger is the author of the poetry collection The Spirit Papers, which won the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. First Place winner of Narrative’s Fifth Annual Poetry Contest, Metzger earned her MFA at Columbia University.

First Anniversary

by Elizabeth Metzger

The fog makes a uterus

last one
we can occupy
together since we cannot


occupy each other yet
again.


You’d probably prefer to sneak back into me


very still, swollen
with a rural vestige of you.
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