Stage of Grief: Bargaining
I cut open my stomach
and pulled my intestines out.
They slide through my fingers,
blood stunning my hands
and collecting under my fingernails.
I tried to give them to you,
to replace your own with,
but you were already
dead.
Bio: Emily Ramser is the assistant editor of Weasel Press. Her books, Toast is Just Bread That Put Up a Fight, I Forgot How to Write When They Diagnosed Me, and Conjuring Her, are available on Amazon. In her free time, when she's not writing, she works as a third grade teacher's assistant.
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