The walk-in closet has its say of early dates Gone awry with a tiny brown silk, its column Shrivels upon the floor to reveal the transparencies Of violet, white veins on hands reaching for After dinner drinks, crackers with olive placed hats You later sit wilted upon wrinkled sheets, Unalarmed your thin straps keep falling […]
Judith Ann Levison
Judith Ann Levison
Judith Ann Levison, of Micmac Indian descent, was raised in a logger’s family on the Maine coast. She was first published in The New Yorker at age 15 as Judi Croxford. Poetry freed her and led her to a new life. She holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College (BA), Hollins University (MFA), and Drexel University […]