Seattle native Hilary Vaughn Dobel holds an MFA in poetry and literary translation from Columbia University. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in Boston Review, Cortland Review, Ploughshares, and A Public Space. She lives in New York and Boston. Find her online at hilaryvdobel.wordpress.com.
Spring 2013
On the Distance
of the Painter’s Arm
I still have to explain how the first time I undressed a man, he was half-drowned and hypothermic. I regarded the two of us, me slicing