Laura Cronk

Laura Cronk

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.

White

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

Before

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