Gina Liotta

LEFTOVERS

You handed me my body back
in a cardboard box with my flesh
in slivers like a gutted fish.
I strung the guts together with dental floss,
smiling at everyone who passed
to show off my new gown of worn skin,
letting them touch and stroke
the seams without giving myself
the chance to regenerate.

Date of Birth: June 7, 1982 Location: Garden City South, NY Day Job: Student Email: gmliotta@hotmail.com Website: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~mpurdy1 Publications: 21st Centruy Poetry Journal, Teen Voices Online, Trafficzine, etc. Awards: Andrew Bergman Scholarship in Creative Writing, Schorr Scholarship for English and Computer Studies

- October 2002 - Conjugating Anatomies After the Flood Instruction Hey You Kids, Get That Dirty Bomb Off My Lawn! Oven-sun Bus Stop breasts Bread and Tulips A Son Born To A Family of Women variation on pollock's cathedral Leonardo’s Notebooks - Poetry by Current & Former Editors - Charming Jenna Sept. 10th the things we do for Kings must end sometime Song Leftovers I'm learning to love haiku Valet Parking at the Salvation Army Shark in Sheep’s Clothing - Stirring's Best From Year Three - Killing Cattle for Disease, Greeley, 1998 Dear Anna Body Parts for Art Hogs Loosed En Route to Slaughter Trying to Raise the Dead Groundhog Day