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Meg Smith is a writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, MA. Her poetry has recently appeared in Lyrical Somerville in The Somerville Times, The Cafe Review, Poetry Bay, The Horror Zine, Star*Line, Good Fat Poetry Zine, and more. Her poetry books, Dear Deepest Ghost and This Scarlet Dancing are available on Amazon.

Bare trees on the Merrimack

We took our winter

to the river walk;

seagulls mingled

with wood ducks,

and a cormorant

declared an island

of driftwood,

all night wings

to the farthest.

I’m keeping this mark

for you.

A mirror-forest

with no leaves,

or memory,

revels in the wake.

— Meg Smith

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