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<\/a>Icon at the Women\u2019s Hospital, St. Bogorodica Bolni\u010dka, Ohrid<\/h2>\n
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The woman waits to speak. This is where the sick have come to the gloom tinged with maroon, a dove, and jackdaw in the courtyard unflinching. In the icon, the boy gets to wear orange. I think I see a wing back there. Perhaps he\u2019s already dead. Perhaps everyone in the icons is dead. Did they refuse the healing? That\u2019s what goes on behind closed doors. Sacraments. Don\u2019t look if you want to trust the situation at hand.<\/p>\n
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Restart It was a hard restart. The red needle fell under the levels of measurement deep inside the rock\u2019s sparkle before the light called it, without shimmer. Without a miss. As if the childhood\u2019s chalkboard had been cleaned by a professional over winter break. It was an opening of doorlight. Her voice said, \u201cWe\u2019ve … <\/p>\nMichelle Matthees\u2019<\/strong><\/span> poems have appeared in numerous journals, including the Baltimore Review, Memorious, Superstition Review, J Journal,<\/em> and Conduit.<\/em> She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota creative writing program and has received grants and awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation. Her first book-length collection, Flucht,<\/em> is available from New Rivers Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"