Laura Cronk is the author of <i>Having Been An Accomplice</i> from Persea Books. Her poems and essays have been published in <i>The Literary Review</i>, <i>Gawker</i>, <i>WSQ</i>, and other journals.
My children are white.
I’m just as white.
Writing it I’m not less white.
When she was born I said,
“She is so beautiful.” He said,
“She looks like a white
I was exquisitely thin, having just mowed the yard. I was hungry, but put off
eating to lie in the grass by the paddle boat dock. The summer feeling I want to
pay