Amy Lee Heinlen is a poet and publisher based in Western Pennsylvania. She’s the author of the chapbook, All Else Falls to Shadow (Dancing Girl Press). You can read her poems in Literary Mama, Stirring: A Literary Collective, Rogue Agent, MER, and elsewhere. Awards include an Academy of American Poets University and College prize and Best Thesis in Poetry prize from Chatham University. Heinlen is co-founder and editor of Lefty Blondie Press, an independent publisher of handbound chapbooks and handset letterpress prints promoting the poetry of self-identifying women and non-binary poets. Visit her at amyleeheinlen.com

Saturday Morning Flannel Sheets

Saturday Morning Flannel Sheets Because I say the exact wrong thingmy daughter sobs: I don’t want to grow up. I don’t want youto die. I don’t want to die. She’s five.Her tongue jimmies her first tooth loose from its warmbottom gum. This necessary severing can’t come withouta little wriggle and push, a little blood. I …

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