Hysterical Cake | Amy Baskin

Amy Baskin’s work is currently featured in Kai Coggin’s WednesdayNight Poetry, Pirene’s Fountain, Friends Journal, and is forthcomingin Pilgrimage. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, anOregon Literary Arts Fellow, and an Oregon Poetry Association prizewinner. When not writing, she helps run literary arts programsincluding Fir Acres Writing Workshop at Lewis & Clark College.   FaithlessI am the anxious child at the windowthe lover checking police logsthe mother scanning gpsI am the shrugging wallflowerthe dweller at mail slotsthe naysayerI am the reader of horoscopesthe editor impervious to fact and fictionthe upholder of fraudI am the weeper of salt which mummifies hopethe bleeder of iron seeds into toilets or new lifethe skeptic of proofsI am the one who catalogues the death of godsthe wounder, the woundedthe godhead