My Borrowed Face

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Award-winning poet Stacy R. Nigliazzo is a nurse who served the Houston community in the emergency department over the course of five COVID-19 surges. </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>My Borrowed Face</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> her third collection chronicles two years in extremis; grackle-eyed nettles in my hair // through my skin while gifting readers a glint of the frantic fractured world of a frontline nurse battling lungs aflame // with ground glass and discarded faces in every lampblack corridor. And yet mercifully and faithfully her resiliency and resolve shine through never letting us fall or forget.</span></p>