Author: Mónica Gomery
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INTERVIEW WITH MÓNICA GOMERY
Mónica Gomery is a rabbi and a poet based in Philadelphia. Chosen for the 2021 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry… her second collection, Might Kindred … skillfully interrogates Goa, queer storytelling, ancestral influences, and more.
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THREE POEMS by Mónica Gomery
CONSIDER THE WOMB With lines from Ewa Chrusciel, Nicole W. Lee, and the Babylonian Talmud Consider womb as a bird.Uterine lining lifting a wing as it rots the pink walls. Consider womb as a flickering candle.There has to be somewhere from where words are born. If they’re born, do we mother…