Tipton Poetry Journal â Summer 2021
you type Morgan Hamill I hope this email finds you doing well but it doesnât. It finds you hunched over your phone on the train under the whitish-yellow light with one foot lodged against the foot of the man next to you who is wearing a Patriotâs hat and an Eagles jacket and you think that doesnât make sense but then again a lot of things donât, like this email that found you you left your desk, for this woman angry that youâve avoided her all week because we canât that she has early stage mild cognitive
even after tell her impairment
until the neuropsychologist gives us the release forms which is just a long-winded way of saying youâre about to play God with someoneâs life, so you have to keep telling her Iâm sorry, I donât know whatâs taking so long but you do.
Morgan Hamill is a disabled poet and a first-year MA/PhD student in English Literature, with a focus in Critical Disability Studies, at Penn State-University Park, where she has been awarded a McCourtney Family Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. In 2019, she was a poetry semi-finalist in Nimrod's Francine Ringold Awards for Emerging Writers. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, The Journal, and The Southern Review.
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