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Today's poem is "Our Bodies"

from The Shore

Rachel Nelson is a Cave Canem fellow and a graduate of the University of Michigan's MFA program. Her poems have appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Muzzle Magazine, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Other poems on the web by Rachel Nelson:
Two poems
"The ground"
Two poems
"Diseases of American Slavery (the earth)"
"Diseases of American Slavery (the desire)"
Three poems
"A Confederate Soldier Causes an Enslaved Woman to Drop Her Meal"
"Tar Baby To-Do List"

Rachel Nelson's Website.


Poetry Editors: Sarah Brockhaus * Caroline Chavatel * John A. Nieves
Other poems by The Shore in Verse Daily:
April 6, 2025:   "On Sundays, I Do Laundry" by Susan L. Leary
April 4, 2025:   "Winter Harvest" by Doug Ramspeck
January 17, 2025:   "Heartbeat Sound Machine" by Jennifer K. Sweeney
January 16, 2025:   "The Bullets Are Thinking About My Body Again" by Michael Okafor
January 14, 2025:   "The Physics of It" by Brian Satrom
October 3, 2024:   "The Last Love Letter of Marie Curie" by Ash Bowen
September 29, 2024:   "Weary of the world, you play Starfield" by Gus Peterson

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