Rob Arnold is cofounder of the online literary journal Memorious and coeditor of Grid Books. His poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in Ploughshares, Memorious, Natural Bridge, and elsewhere. He lives in Boston and works at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency.
"Though I understand I’m not / supposed to look, not supposed / to notice how the scar / bisects you nape to pelvis / like a terrible strikethrough, / just as you pretend not to see / my own disfigurements, / the flesh lumped and puckered / where, as a child, I was / bruised and bitten, beaten and bled."