{nat’l poetry month: “Shrinking Women,” by Lily Meyers}

Lily Meyers, age twenty, performing for Wesleyan University at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.

“…That’s why women in my family have been shrinking for decades. We all learned it from each other, the way each generation taught the next how to knit, weaving silence in between the threads, which I can still feel as I walk through this ever-growing house.”