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after my first pap smear

A poem by Vivian Trutzl

gyno / roman
speculum / spear

drips down my thighs
abdomen pressure tells me

i don’t know where my organs actually
nestle in my cavities

to doctor                      to divinity
i am                               i am
body with self              self with body

but i saw it:
if mount of olives

is a but a mound,
familiar,

then golgotha is a minor goddess
& oh, does she fight

cavalry / calvary
warrior / sacrifice

my thighs leak grace --
tell me who deserves it

all i have to give
goes freely

sweetly
human

wound / wound
water / water

look at the way
jesus bled — if he was

a perfect lamb
then he was

a perfect femme
in the blessed company

​of us
all

Vivian Trutzl is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan. She is a slam poet and competed with the Ann Arbor team at the 2016 National Poetry Slam. In 2017, she performed with the UM Slam Poetry team at College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, and coached UM's team in 2018. Her work has been published in Passages North.
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  • Online Issue No. 10
  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • Online Issue No.9
    • 2016 Fall Online
    • 2016 Sppring Online
    • 2017 Fall Online
    • 2017 Print Issue - Manifesto TOC
    • 2018 Fall Print Issue - Frankenstein TOC
    • 2018 FA Frankenstein Companion
    • 2018 Summer Online
    • 2018 Fall Folio - VOTE
    • 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
    • 2019 SPR Mental Health Companion >
      • Issue Intro
    • 2019 Fall Folio -- Moon Moon
    • 2019 Fall Folio
    • 2020 Summer Folio
    • 2020 Feb Folio
    • 2021 Feb Folio
  • Feral Parrot : The Blog
  • 2022 Handley Awards
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Inscape Alumni Board