Kathleen Radigan Kathleen Radigan is a writer and cartoonist from Rhode Island whose work has been published in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly, McSweeney’s, and Guernica, among other places. She teaches high school English in New York City.

Break Maiden | Poetry

Kathleen Radigan

Just when I think I am dead, I see horses in the next yard, glistening. Their bones crack like glow sticks. They honk up ethereal snot, spit pearls into the pool. The minute I hear them pounding down the street, I forgive their stench, their eagerness to deceive. I forget how they left, how they gambled my fortune to dust. What providence! The Lord let them return, velour skin stinking...