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Cesca Waterfield

Cesca Janece Waterfield grew up in south Alabama, and on Virginia’s Rappahannock River, like generations of her family. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous publications, and one of her short stories was selected by Natalie Baszile for the 2017 Editor’s Prize in Fiction awarded by MARY: A Journal of New Writing. She recently graduated from Louisiana’s McNeese State University with an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English.

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Two Poems: "Fertile Girls" and "A Good Woman's Word"

by Cesca Waterfield December 13, 2017December 3, 2020

I am the granddaughter of drunks,
//of people who pocketed dimes//
pilfered with blackened fingers
//slid along the edge of the bar,
//who swung at god
//and missed, who spared
//no rod and seized each day

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