Kelly Lenox's poems, prose, and translations have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Raven Chronicles, The Dirty Goat, RHINO, Hubbub, The Summerset Review, Drunken Boat, MARGIN, and Poetry International. Lenox is a cotranslator of Voice in the Body (Litterae Slovenicae, 2006) and Six Slovenian Poets (Arc Publications, 2006), among other works. She holds a master of fine arts degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a journals production editor for Oxford University Press in Cary, North Carolina.

About this poem, she writes, “Though I wrote this poem out of living with fibromyalgia, I know the experience of ‘invisible’ pain is widespread, and that such pain is often more visible than the term suggests.” “Mudsick” © 2012 by Kelly Lenox. Contact author: [email protected].

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