Black Belt
By
Laura Foley
Her husband in a coma,
she in the dojo,
learning to kill with her toes.
she in the dojo,
learning to kill with her toes.
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We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2019 by Laura Foley, “Black Belt” from Why I Never Finished My
Dissertation (Headmistress Press, 2019). Poem reprinted by permission of Laura Foley and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2024 by The Poetry Foundation.