Debra Bruce

Debra Bruce’s most recent book is Survivors’ Picnic, and her poems have been published widely in journals, including Poetry, Shenandoah, and others. She has recent work in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry and New Verse Review. Professor emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University, she lives in Chicago.

Poetry – Issue 36

The cover of Issue 36, featuring a linoleum block print of rays swimming in the ocean.

You Send a Glass Eye Across the Page

Did you hope for a hint of the exotic? / Dear writer, this is not how eyes are made— / no glass, no ball, a small curve of acrylic. / It doesn’t just pop out. Ask this girl. . . .