2020

Gwen Hart

Walking

along the riverbank

we find

offerings

of dead fish

the water deposits

here and there

on the sand

as if to say,

This is how

to mourn,

and when

you can't

mourn anymore,

this is how

to move on.

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Gwen Hart teaches writing at Montana State University Northern. Her second poetry collection, The Empress of Kisses, won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press.

Gwen also has a poem in Issue 5.

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