by Sarah Rosenblatt
I had traveled with it for years,
then
I put it down,
wrote something personal
for the world to see,
something close
to the bone.
Me too.
It went kerplunk.
The empress had no clothes.
I put it out there –
overshared? –
broke through layers
and layers
of taboo.
© Sarah Rosenblatt
Sarah Rosenblatt is a poet and therapist specializing in intergenerational trauma. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and an MSW from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Sarah’s poetry has been published in myriad journals including Ploughshares, Poetry East, Heartland, The Portland Review, The Brooklyn Review, and others. She is the author of three books of poetry published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Sarah has a husband, Craig, who is an artist and therapist, two sons currently in college, and a dog named Mitzvah who was bred to be her family’s very best friend. Sarah Rosenblatt was born in NYC and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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