Summer
By Sandra Marchetti
It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!
Smallest grey triangle on my wrist bone— I blow the moth onto the sidewalk.
Sandra Marchetti is the 2023 Winner of The Twin Bill Book Prize for Best Baseball Poetry Book of the Year. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: Aisle 228 from Stephen F. Austin State University Press (2023), and Confluence from Sundress Publications (2015). Sandy is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Her poetry appears widely in Poet Lore, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Sandra’s essays can be found at The Rumpus, Whiskey Island, Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, Pleiades, and other venues. She is Poetry Editor Emerita at River Styx Magazine. Sandy earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Support at Harper College in Chicagoland.
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love this simple poem from sandra! :)