poem for my husband
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It won’t be calamity:
take shelter drills kneeling in a hallway lined with lockers fingers interlaced to cover the vulnerable back of the neck. It won’t be disaster: a thousand dead bees, swept into piles like horse chestnuts barbed and pointless. If you wake up and don’t want me — It will be moss. It will be kudzu. It will be English ivy. It will be one possum: white-snouted, bristle-furred, undiscovered and dead in the crawlspace, circled tight as if asleep. |
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Maggie Blake Bailey has poems published or forthcoming in A-Minor Magazine, Ruminate, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Bury the Lede, is available from Finishing Line Press, and her full-length debut, Visitation, will be available from Tinderbox Editions in 2019. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two small children. For more work, please visit www.maggieblakebailey.com or follow her @maggiebbpoet on Twitter.
Laurence Hervieux-Gosselin was born in Montreal, Quebec. She studied scriptwriting and communications at Université du Québec à Montréal and has a BFA in Photography from Concordia University. She is currently an MFA candidate in Art Photography in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. In 2018, she was a finalist for the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award, and in 2014, she was a finalist for the Ideastap Photographic Award with Magnum Photos. Her work has been exhibited at Uqbar (Berlin, 2018), La Castiglione (Montreal, 2018), Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver, 2017), Monash Gallery of Art (Melbourne, 2017), dnj Gallery (Santa Monica, 2016), and The Old Truman Brewery (London, 2014).