Uncle Writes

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My wife lifted from her body at night,

petrified our daughters.

She leaped from her window and became a swarm of bats.

She left her bones for something else to chew.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rohanna Ssanyu is a black, biracial, and diasporan writer born in Fairbanks to a mother from Kampala and father from southwest Missouri. Rohanna is the 1st prize winner of the 2023 Nutmeg Poetry Prize organized by the Connecticut Poetry Society. She lives and teaches in Connecticut, United States. Find Rohanna on Instagram.

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