Maya Marshall

Maya Marshall is the author of All the Blood Involved in Love. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, and Callaloo, she currently serves as the 2021–23 Poetry Fellow at Emory University.

Two poems by Maya Marshall

An Abortion Ban

is a body snatcher,
is an ethnic cleansing.

The uterus is a cave,
is an incubator, is a vault,

is a self-destructing bomb,
is a thoroughfare.

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