Today's poem is
"Self-Portrait with Zoloft and Fruit"
from The Cincinnati Review
Despy Boutris
is the author of the fiction chapbook Burials (Bull City Press, 2022) and also has appeared in Ploughshares, Guernica, Agni, Copper Nickel, Cincinnati Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.
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