Ana Carrete

Ana Carrete is a poet. Her latest collection is Blush & Blink (Lang Books, 2023). Instagram: @ana__carrete

NUNS & ROSES by Ana Carrete

A nun was cloistered in a convent near me. I knew her. She was the Mother Superior. She was the main bitch. Top energy. She left that cloistered convent and moved to the Midwest.  I was visiting the Midwest for poetry and to fuck a writer I’d been sexting with for months. I waxed my pussy right before I went on that trip and that was a mistake. My boyfriend dropped me off at the airport.  I took a pill to fall asleep on the plane. When the plane landed, my head was resting on the stranger next to me….

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