I Draw Myself/ poem by Catherine Gonick

I Draw Myself  
			

The first drawing was a line traced around the shadow of a woman.
 
Old women like me should be represented with swift and furious gestures. 

A painter with clumsy hands will paint similar hands in her work. 

I leave hand-prints on the wall.

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Catherine Gonick has published poetry in journals including Lightwood, Notre-Dame Review, The Orchards Poetry Journal and Pedestal, and in anthologies including Grabbed, Support Ukraine, in plein air, and Rumors, Secrets & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion and Choice. She lives in the lower Hudson Valley and works with her husband
in a business that seeks to lower the rate of global warming. Her first collection of poetry, Split Daughter of Eve, is forthcoming from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in the spring of 2025.
The book is available for order at: https://sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-na-gig-editions/catherine-gonick/