Note: “Nondisclosure by J[ ] R[ ]” is a found poem and an erasure, using material from “How Saying #MeToo Changed Their Lives” from the New York Times, June 28, 2018
I can’t talk about
what happened,
I can’t tell you if it
happened
more than once I can’t tell you who
[ ] was there
when
it happened or if
I was alone I can’t
tell you [ ]made me feel I can’t tell you
about the power [ ]
myself and the person or persons
the incident [ ]
I can’t tell [ ] who
[ ] reported it [ ]
[ ] the company, nor [ ] I can’t even [ ]
their response [ ][ ] you who
I asked for advice
or
what [ ].
I can’t [ ] conditions [ ]
signed the agreement [ ] and I can’t tell [ ]
before or after I signed [
].
I would love to share [
]. [ ] when you sign [
] constitutional right [ ] [ ].
Emily Pérez
Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want, winner of the Iowa Prize; House of Sugar, House of Stone, and two chapbooks. She co-edited the forthcoming anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Emerging Critic, her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Copper Nickel, Fairy Tale Review, and Poetry. She teaches in Denver, where she lives with her family. Tip her on Venmo at @emilytheperez