Reese Menefee | The Sun Magazine

Reese Menefee

Reese Menefee is a writer from Kentucky and an MFA candidate at McNeese State University in Louisiana.

— From March 2023
Poetry

Ode To My Brother’s Face Tattoos

At twenty you’ve managed to erase / our dad’s face from your own, / blacked out his sharp cheekbones / with roses, marked each eyelid / with an upside-down cross to distract / from his glossy brown irises.

March 2023
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