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Emma Colmary is an aspiring author and illustrator of children’s literature and is currently attending her final semester at Endicott College. Her poetic and artistic works are closely tied to her appreciation for earthly and celestial wonder. She enjoys storytelling, glitter glue, and little trinkets.

Not long ago, you were a sound.

Emma Colmary

Listen and remember:
You were there in the wind and waves.
You were chimes– caressed– and the humming bee
and the squelch of wet earth under the laughing child’s rain boots.
You were the distant thunder on one summer night.
You were the joyful chord from the aged piano.
And also, you were the dull note in its sea of ivory.
How expansive you were.
You saw traffic whiz
And couples kiss
And bottles swig
And bodies rinsed
And sleepless parents rocking cribs
And dandelions blown
And daisies picked
Before you, the entire world unfolded.
Once some endless spirit, never contained.
But here you are with your eyes closed:
listening, recalling.
The leaves rustle your name.

Womb

I want to carry me
and feel mothered inside
like swimming in the night lake.

— Emma Colmary

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