Marcia LeBeau’s poems have been published in Rattle, The Hiram Review, Moon City Review, SLANT, and elsewhere. Her work has also appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine and has been read on the radio. She has been anthologized in Challenges for the Delusional (Jane Street Press, 2012) and The Crack the Spine Anthology XIV (Crack the […]
Marcia LeBeau
Marcia LeBeau: Letter to Myself at Eighty
I hope you know you’re still lovely, with a tongue that can knot a maraschino cherry stem, then turn the world straight. Your wrinkled branches remain for you to dance in the wind. Remember, on your most ragdoll-of-days, you are holy. But why am I telling you this? Surely you know more now than I […]
Marcia LeBeau: After You Tell Me You and Your Wife Have “an Agreement”
I want to talk about everything except your agreement, here in my car where you’re taking up too much space. I want to look at your knees knocking my glove box as the branches of the Norwegian Maple vein the moon roof and think about what could have been if you had just kept your […]