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Breath & Shadow
Spring 2017 - Vol. 14, Issue 4
"Draw Your Own Conclusions"
written by
Marilynn Talal
Draw the sea growing larger
and it grows larger.
We don’t have to imagine
the sea growing larger. It grows.
The sea swallows the sea.
Draw wavy lines
and presto! waves.
A polar bear
with her soft round ears
above the water
floats in the growing sea
amid melting ice
chains of ice islands,
islands where people live,
melting into so much loss
Marilynn Talal received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Houston where she won the Stella Earhart Memorial Award. She has published more than 200 poems in The Paris Review,Southern Poetry Review, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
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