White chicken
Attached to a tree
At neck and legs
With string
Sarah Maclay is the author of three poetry collections-Music for the Black Room, Whore, and The White Bride (all from University of Tampa Press), and three chapbooks. Her poetry and critical prose appears in American Poetry Review, FIELD, Ploughshares, The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing and literature at Loyola Marymount University.
*Photo courtesy of Adnan Yahya.