couldn’t unstick
that unearthed feeling
gold leaves on my coat
Freesia McKee’s words have appeared in The Feminist Wire, Painted Bride Quarterly, Gertrude, CALYX, Sinister Wisdom, Nimrod, the Ms. Magazine Blog, and her chapbook How Distant the City (Headmistress Press, 2017). Freesia was the winner of the 2018 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry.