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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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  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • Feral Parrot : The Blog
  • INTERVIEWS
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • PRINT Chapbook No.6 Healing Arts
    • Online Issue No.9
    • Online Issue No.1 Fall 2016
    • Online Issue No.2 Spring 2017
    • ONLINE Issue No.3 Fall 2017
    • PRINT Vol 72 No 2 Fall 2017
    • PRINT Vol 73 No.1 Fall 2018
    • ONLINE Issue No. 4 Fall 2018
    • Online Issue No.5 Summer 2018
    • FOLIO No.1 Fall 2018 VOTE
    • ONLINE Issue No.6 Fall 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • FOLIO 2 Fall 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
    • FOLIO No.3 -- Moon Moon Spring 2019
    • FOLIO No.4 Celebrating New PCC Writers
    • FOLIO No.5 City of Redemption
    • FOLIO No.6 Spring 2020
    • FOLIO No. 7 - Winter 2021 Into the Forest
  • 2022 Handley Awards
  • Inscape Alumni Board
  • PRINT Chapbook No. 7 Healing Arts