Umbrella
A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose


Christina Manweller

lives and works in Colorado.  She has poems forthcoming in Crannóg Literary Magazine and Slow Trains Literary Journal.

She has worked as a waitress, a seismologist, a shipping clerk, an art gallery proprietor. Poetry is her sustenance.


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Margaret of Cortona

Whip-stitched together,
the saint with the rip
up her middle
hid her zipper
for seven-hundred years.

She was dried
and dressed for eternity,
innards duly apportioned
to sundry chapters of the See,
succor for the devoted,
hope for the irredeemable;
but Margaret, holy Margaret,
she’s hollow as a gourd.
 
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