Our Lady of the Fallow
Megan Neville
Use the phrase let down like I know what
it is to cry milk through the front of my shirt.
Latch as a closing off or holding in—
depends on which side you’re on. At 40 I switched
to past tense: from I don’t have children to
I didn’t. It’s none of your business, really, but
my ovaries carry such inheritance
they each need a therapist of their own.
In a parking lot I think a seagull is a baby &
go searching for it. Later at home I hear the baby
& think it’s nothing, just a seagull & scatter
bread scraps on the ground.
