Peggy Landsman is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Our Words, Our Worlds (Kelsay Books) and To-wit To-woo (Foothills Publishing). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many literary anthologies and journals, including Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press), SMEOP Urban (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press), Mezzo Cammin, and Scientific American. She lives in South Florida where she swims in the warm Atlantic Ocean every chance she gets.

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Archimedes Screwed

By PEGGY LANDSMAN

Unable at birth / to give birth to himself, / a man like any other, / Archimedes acquiesced, / left that labor for his mother.