Kathleen Maris’s poems have appeared in The Atlas Review, White Whale Review, ILK, Alice Blue Review, and elsewhere. She is the Fall Residency coordinator for the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
Kathleen Maris
Kathleen Maris: I Won’t Go Into Details
but on the bus from Columbia to Ecuador you are unwell yet when an old man hands you a bottle you grip the armrest to lean forward and open it for him.