(Where) My Body Did Not Endafter Loose Strife by Quan BerryDraw a map with no beginning
you were not born but plucked from tree vast and placeless mark the spot in your mother’s garden( ) you broke water
Nesha Ruther is a poet hailing from Takoma Park, Maryland. She was a member of the 2015 DC Youth Slam Team and a 2016 YoungArts winner in spoken word. She currently attends the University of Wisconsin Madison as part of the tenth cohort of First Wave.