Legs
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how in her looking
back to hold memory close Lot’s wife did not worry, rooted to the ground by frozen pillared legs strange desert mermaid of coming winds to sweep salted flesh away to nothing. disappeared long before being turned to salt she had never even owned a name. |
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Hope Wabuke is the author of the chapbooks The Leaving and Movement No.1: Trains. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A contributing editor for The Root, her work has also been published in The Guardian, Guernica, The North American Review, Salamander Literary Journal, Ruminate Literary Journal, African Voices Magazine, Literary Mama, Salon, Gawker, Ozy, Creative Nonfiction, The Hairpin, The Feminist Wire, The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Magazine, Ms. Magazine online, and others. Hope has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Times Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women Writers, the Awesome Foundation, and the Voices of Our Nations (VONA) Arts Foundation.