Float by Margaret Marcum

Reach in,

shake hands with yourself on the other side

The mirror will turn to water

in the sky. Let the tide

become the moon,

where we can float

in her craters

peacefully at last

ABOUT:

Margaret Marcum lives in Delray Beach with her three cats, Angel Clare, Alice, and Adam. She recently graduated from the MFA program in creative writing at Florida Atlantic University. Her poems have appeared in Amethyst Review, NonBinary Review, Scapegoat Review, October Hill Magazine, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, and Children, Churches, and Daddies, among others. She was a finalist for the 2021 Rash Award in Poetry sponsored by Broad River Review. Follow updates at @mad.donnnaa on Instagram.

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