STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
“Indistinguishable”
by Nicole Gentry
gouache and ink on paper. 8x10”
AMY LEE HEINLEN
What does one do with nothing
news when those who know close in
So sorry So sorry in my body
that blighted balloon doesn’t belong
sorry it’s science a setback it sucks
silver sphere slowed
stopped see
sonogram reveals nothing
a bubble
no silvery slick baby
beginning surrounded by black
ovaries my other organs obfuscated
normal
inside I sleep the surgeon spreads
my legs slips out the orb
see nothing here no sound still
Amy Lee Heinlen’s first chapbook, All Else Falls to Shadow, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press in fall 2018. You can read her poems at Academy of American Poets, Rogue Agent, Pittsburgh City Paper, Nasty Women Poets: An Anthology of Subversive Verse, and elsewhere. In 2016, she was awarded an Academy of American Poets University and College prize and the Best Thesis in Poetry prize from Chatham University where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing and publishing. She is a proud member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops in Pittsburgh, PA.
