Her sense of smell is ten times stronger.
And so her husband smells funny;
she rolls away from him in the bed.
She even smells funny to herself,
but cannot roll away from that.
Why couldn’t she get a more useful superpower?
Like the ability to turn invisible, or fly?
The refrigerator laughs at her from its dark corner,
knowing she will have to open it some time
and surrender to its villainous odors.
Superhero Pregnant Woman by Jessy Randall | Poetry Reed Diffuser Set
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Jessy Randall's poems and stories have appeared in Nature, Poetry, and Scientific American. Her latest book is The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science (London: Gold SF, 2025). bit.ly/JessyRandall
