Mary Lou Buschi
I’m assembling a box of toys―
But your box is round
and full of fluid?
It’s full of whispers and black channels;
a spider’s thread, a red ball,
a blue eyed doll,
a cat and a sparrow.
I want to make whole, of these fragments, if only
to invite you in.
Mary Lou Buschi has been nominated for Best New Poets 2014 and was a finalist for Best of Net Anthology, 2014. She received the Apospecimen Award from A Cappella Zoo for noteworthy contribution. Mary Lou has received fellowships from The Santa Fe Writer’s Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and The New York City Teaching Fellows. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines such as, Field, Four Way Review. Radar, among others. Her full-length poetry collection, Awful Baby, was published this year through Red Paint Hill Publishing.
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But your box is round
and full of fluid?
It’s full of whispers and black channels;
a spider’s thread, a red ball,
a blue eyed doll,
a cat and a sparrow.
I want to make whole, of these fragments, if only
to invite you in.
Mary Lou Buschi has been nominated for Best New Poets 2014 and was a finalist for Best of Net Anthology, 2014. She received the Apospecimen Award from A Cappella Zoo for noteworthy contribution. Mary Lou has received fellowships from The Santa Fe Writer’s Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and The New York City Teaching Fellows. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines such as, Field, Four Way Review. Radar, among others. Her full-length poetry collection, Awful Baby, was published this year through Red Paint Hill Publishing.
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