Carmine
By Ren Wilding
“At the pharmacy, I pluck butterfly wings / from my wallet to stop / anything from fluttering in you.”
Ren Wilding
Ren Wilding earned an MA in Literature and Gender Studies from the University of Missouri. Their work has appeared in Bellerive, The Outrider Review, Cactus Heart, Trans Love: An Anthology of Transgender and Non-Binary Voices, Braving the Body, and is forthcoming in Pine Hills Review. They were a finalist in the Comstock Review’s 2023 Chapbook Contest and winner of the St. Louis Poetry Center’s 2023 James H. Nash Contest.