Katherine DiBella Seluja

Because terror

is frozen in ice in zero-degree weather. Because a woman being of service
can be killed. Because she might start the day scrambling eggs

and then leave them cold on the table. Because longing is filled with many types of hunger, driving is filled with so many distractions and one of them is carrying a gun.

Because another name for nurse is terrorist.

Because, “That’s fine dude” is a simple sort of blessing. Because her children wait
on the backdoor step watching red squeeze from the sky.

Katherine DiBella Seluja is a nurse practitioner, a poet and a micro fiction writer. Her most recent collection, Point of Entry (UNM Press, 2023) focuses on issues of migration and ancestry. She is a co-author with Tina Carlson and Stella Reed, of the collaborative collection, We Are Meant to Carry Water (3: A Taos Press, 2019), winner of the New Mexico- Arizona Book Award and the Southwest Design Book Award. Katherine co-edited with Dale Wisely, an anthology of grief poems, Memento (Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press, 2025). Recent work can be found in South 85 Journal, Intima, and Taos Journal of Poetry. Katherine is a poetry editor at Unbroken Journal.