Kelsey Bryan-Zwick

Kintsugi

The art of repairing pottery with gold.

I offer my broken body, time and time again
upon the operating table, as rapid hands shine
they pour in rare metals, trying to keep me whole
enough to hold my own water, my own blood.


Kelsey Bryan-Zwick is a Spanish/English speaking Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of Watermarked (Sadie Girl Press). kelseybryanzwick.wixsite.com/poetry.