Kathleen McClung's "The D.A.'s Opening Statement" is from her fourth poetry collection, A Juror Must Fold in on Herself, winner of the 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize. She is also the author of Temporary Kin, The Typists Play Monopoly, and Almost the Rowboat. She teaches at Skyline College in the San Francisco Bay Area, edits poetry for The MacGuffin, and judges sonnets for the Soul-Making Keats literary competition.

Books by Kathleen McClung:

Other poems on the web by Kathleen McClung:
Four poems
Two poems
"Crab Feed"
"The Sequestered Juror Writes a Cento"
Five poems

Kathleen McClung's Website.