Here are two favorite passages from a poem not yet published,
or I would include the whole poem. Soon enough.
After A Rain
by Mary R
They noticed, you see, that I was a noticing
kind of person, so they left the dictionary
out in the rain and I noticed it,
I noticed that it was open to the rain page,
much harm [...]

The two Alexandreas said I looked glamorous, no make-up, sneaking out to send my email…I felt like a Joni Mitchell album cover.

It feels a little like skipping ahead to read the end of the story, and a little meta- as it is set here at MacDowell, but I can’t stop myself from working on the last chapter. I was inspired by a scene in the main hall last night, of Mary R, slinking across the main [...]