https://nwreview.org/contributor/cmarie-fuhrman/ Recent content in CMarie Fuhrman on Northwest Review Hugo en-US Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:59:11 -0700 https://nwreview.org/journal/50/01/cmarie-fuhrman/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://nwreview.org/journal/50/01/cmarie-fuhrman/ <pre tabindex="0"><code>they made the first cut to the cervix, though the knife enters through her abdomen, legs spread and naked steel table, experimental procedure, kill the womb and save the tax payers from one little two little three little children, whose never to be mother is told her poverty is to blame for the _ that lay beside her in a cold pan. &#34;We&#39;ll stitch you up with gov&#39;t pens that write scars across your parchment belly demarcations of land split open like so much tilled soil-- doesn&#39;t she look life like! Land O&#39; Lakes! Pocahontas put your dress back on and dance, dance for us empty uterus jingling against sad ribs. And where are your men? Bring us the tall pine, our knives want to know him, too! A cigar for the baby not born, tomahawk chop to the vascular river of life, oh Kaw Liga you poor old wooden head, redskin, warrior, don&#39;t you know this is how we honor you!&#34; Tanned skins drape over bones of men drawn to look like the billboard of tears that ran down that faux face. Oh Wahoo can you forgive us our sins as we try and try to prosper in this culture of consumerism where even our bodies are laid on tables like so much red meat and in the arms where mothers held ghost babies to dry breast will you lay one more time and suckle as we rock you to sleep with our death song? </code></pre>