Jane-Rebecca Cannarella

Freckled scars
are imprints of dears or deer—
exit wounds over my body:
abstract art, spatters of color
patterned like lace and the feeling
of raised grapefruit-colored kisses
—and just as tart. I run my fingertips
over the stitched pieces held
together by hasty needlework—
a framed magic-eye 
needlepoint; home
decorations that greet friends’
fingers with welcoming artwork
that they can touch. 

JANE-REBECCA CANNARELLA is a writer and editor living in Philadelphia. She is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, and a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket. Jane-Rebecca is the author of Better Bones and Marrow, both published by Thirty West Publishing House, The Guessing Game published by BA Press, and Thirst and Frost forthcoming from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press.