Veterinary Practice
By Grace Wagner
“He shows you how // to slit the skin, open the abdomen of a cow / and reach in, extract the calf. First he takes off his wedding ring.”
Grace Wagner
Grace Wagner is a queer nonbinary poet living with a disability and teaching at the University of Houston where they also work as Assistant Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast. They’ve studied with Robert Pinsky, Carolyn Forche, and Henri Cole. Their work has been featured in Salmagundi Magazine and is forthcoming in The Atlanta Review.