Madalyn Rymer

Madalyn Rymer recently graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a B.A. in Creative Writing and an M.S. in Elementary Education and is an emerging writer with work forthcoming in Beyond Words literary journal and Storm of Blue Press.

“caged,” “eleven, six, one” and “bones”

my skin is a lead bodysuit
and other than the hope
that it might crush me one day
it hides my vibrating bones
so that I am the only one
that feels them shaking
inside of me