by Karen Soans

 

can’t pretend

to love your penchant

for poison chasing

I do not want to spend

the evening

talking to your transformation

 

but we all have blades

we love to sink into soft flesh

the anaemic mind

will argue itself blind

to taste iron and find home.

 

 

 

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Karen is an Indian scientist and aspiring writer living in Germany. She has a PhD in cell biology and uses the Instagram handle @doodlinscientist to share her digital art documenting the highs and lows of experiment and discovery. Her poems explore themes of childhood, anxiety, faith and most recently – motherhood. Her poetry is forthcoming in Penumbra Online, Nightshade Lit Mag and Identity Theory.