The Traffic in Women / Kristina Marie Darling

 About the Author: Kristina Marie Darling is an English major at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of three previous chapbooks: Fevers and Clocks (March Street Press, 2006), House of Mirrors (March Street Press, 2006), and House of Fame (Powerscore Press, 2006). Her poems and personal essays have appeared or are forthcoming in several online and print publications including The Mid-America Poetry Review, Wicked Alice, freefall, The Arabesques Review, Subtle Tea, and The Other Voices International Project. She also received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize in 2006. Lorenz’s Hypothesis (Def.: formal attempts to reveal structure in unpredictable changing systems such as cloud formation or the disorientation of various biological populations – an orderly periodicity rarely occurs in nature; in the quest to discover formulae, disarray has been often ignored.) Tonight I am not unwanted. This has never happened before, & won’t again. Because things only happen a c