Remainder by Stefanie Kirby (Inch #64)

Description

In the opening poem of Remainder, a woman swallows a bird; in another, a woman is a mouth. Daughters are tucked into windows or birthed as singing goats. As she dwells in the aftermath of birthing, feeding, and losing, Stefanie Kirby tenderly resigns herself to a journey of endings, discovering that what lingers—the remainder—echoes with a bittersweet ache.

Stefanie Kirby lives and writes along Colorado’s Front Range. She is the author of Fruitful (Driftwood, 2024), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest. Her poetry has been included in Best of the Net and appears in West Branch, phoebe, The Massachusetts Review, The Maine Review, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere.