Martha Leaning at the Window
Perhaps she whispers the cat’s name, tsk tsks to her, inviting her out of doors into the garden where light is captured and tossed from shrub to the burnished sky then back to flowers so brushed by breezes that corals and peaches spring off their surfaces before shape can contain them. Inside, the walls hug burnt orange to themselves, determined not to share anything with periwinkle tablecloth, almost strong enough to slam the turquoise and aqua door shut in Martha’s face, selfish as fire. Morgan Grayce Willow Morgan Grayce Willow published her third poetry collection Dodge & Scramble in 2013 (Ice Cube Press). Her essays have appeared in Water~Stone Review, Imagination & Place: Cartography, as well as the anthology Riding Shotgun: Women Write about Their Mothers, recently re-released in paperback by Borealis Books. She completed the book arts core certificate at Minnesota Center for Book Arts and exhibited her original artist’s book Collage for Mina Loy in 2016. Morgan lives in Minneapolis and teaches at The Loft Literary Center.
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