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 Contents | April 2003 More on poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. |
Portrait of the Author After X-Ray
by Jillian Weise .....  Hear the author read this poem (in RealAudio)The radiologist forgot to place the shield across the child's ovaries. The risks are minimal they say, one in a million, one in ten thousand. The lead-rubber hand, somehow protective, positioned over could-be freckles, fingers. The child didn't notice until after the picture was taken. Furious, cheated, she refused to get dressed, stalked into the radiology waiting room bare-assed and brazen until her mother tackled her and begged her to stop screaming.
Jillian Weise is the Fred Chappell Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She recently won the Academy of American Poets John McKay Shaw Award. Copyright © 2003 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; April 2003; Portrait of the Author After X-Ray; Volume 291, No. 3; 78. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] | ||
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