Belly
by Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
I’m tired, she says. We’re sleeping, he says.
Who knew a beginning could be totally quiet.
Leaf-light, footprints, a strand of hair blowing past them.
Uneven bells, the traveling.
Mushrooms pushing from this earth.
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VCFA Journal of the Arts
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an editor for poemmemoirstory and DIAGRAM. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming on Verse Daily, Drunken Boat, 42opus, the Kenyon Review Online, and in Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry and Salt Hill among others. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband and son.
