Tipton Poetry Journal – Summer 2021
Imagining the space Kim Garcia where we might meet, a basement room or up a stone stair, baseboards scuffed with strangers. You might be shaking out the doormat, embarrassed, not meeting my eye. What would I say? So much I meant to tell you, before we met, before you closed the door and took nothing of me where you went.
Kim Garcia is the author of The Brighter House (White Pine Press), DRONE (The Backwaters Press), Madonna Magdalene (Turning Point Books), and a chapbook, Tales of the Sisters. Her poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, New Ohio Review, Sugar House Review, IMAGE, Waxwing, and Tupelo Quarterly (winner of the 2019 Broadside Prize). Garcia teaches creative writing at Boston College.
What Is Mine Patricia Davis-Muffett for Merie
Returning from a long weekend pretending no responsibility becoming once again grad students forging the steel cord of friendship outlasting a decade of neglect when we never shared a meal, a glass of wine, walked a path together, sat silently, pens furious across the page--
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