The Knife by Nancy Scott

A large tree in the middle of green woodland. Large white text reads: The Knife. Smaller text reads: Discussing disability in fairy tales and folklore.

Past monthly courses and curses, I am now thin-skinned. Just lickable red salt from five seconds holding the knife wrong while listening for imagined owls, while not writing “I love you” sonnets, while learning the power in weakness. 

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About the author:
Nancy Scott has over 990 bylines in magazines, literary journals, anthologies, newspapers, and audio commentaries. She won First Prize in the 2009 International Onkyo Braille Essay Contest. Her work appears in *82 Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Braille Forum, Chrysanthemum, Kaleidoscope, One Sentence Poems, Persimmon Tree, Pulse Voices, Shark Reef, Wordgathering, and Yahoo News.