Abstract
Rural Stigmata Jen Coleman (bio) I’ve nurtured the glowing wound:peroxide, salve,bandages. I’ve done rightby this one. The rawness eased,was replacedby budding infantcells. Trenches formedin the nickel-sized spotwhere my fate and life linesintersected the injury,two deep vertical redcanals in a waxy purple-pinkcircle: a burnt pig’s nose,some grotesqueelectrical outlet, the markof blaze to come. [End Page 33] Jen Coleman Jen Coleman has recently been a finalist for The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships and the Zone 3 Press First Book Award. Her work has appeared in Buddhist Poetry Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, New Welsh Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Hollins University and currently teaches English at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College and Lynchburg College. She lives in Roanoke, Virginia with her two Manx cats. Copyright © 2015 Berea College
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