#ghostbread

GHOST BREAD on Twitter—was for a do this in your style thing

my body is not a temple,

a crystalline, cold place, swimming

with shadows and regret.

my body is a home—

knit of dirt and light, and warm

to the touch. warm

and wild and

I don’t know how it works where you live but I couldn’t parallel park at all, and I still passed the test. (good luck!)

Sonja Livingston is the author of Ghostbread, a memoir about growing up one of seven children, with a single mother, and being raised in areas of western New York, hidden from the rest of America. Ghostbread was the 2009 winner of the AWP Award for Nonfiction, and Livingston's poems and essays have been honored with an NYFA Fellowship, an Iowa Review Award, Pushcart Prize nominations, and grants from Vermont Studio Center and The Deming Fund for Women. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including the Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southeast Review, AGNI, as well as several anthologies and texts on writing. She teaches workshops locally and online, and edits the nonfiction litlog postcardmemoirs.com.