Melissa Ann Goodwin is a poet, writer, yoga teacher, and lover of books, nature, and cats. She has written two novels for children, The Christmas Village and Return to Canterbury. Her work-in-progress is a novel based on her mother’s experience as an American girl in an English boarding school for orphans at the start of WWII.
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
The leak in your breathing/ tube makes a cartoon squeak./ It takes two nurses, silent/ as nuns, to place you/ in my arms...
If I have already/ gone insane/ but I want to get/ crazier yet,/ what’s my move?/ Go outsane?
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