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Margery Hutter Silver’s first career was as an editor for the Atlantic Monthly and Boston book publishing houses. After her retirement from her second career in geriatric europsychology, during which she wrote and published the book, Living to 100 (Perseus, 1999) and many journal articles, she expected to return to her first love, writing short stories. Instead, she began to write and loves poetry.

ALONG THE RIVER

The full moon

silvers the winding Charles on our

left. We round a curve; its brightness

mocks Boston’s somber brownstones.

Back and forth it seems to fly, too

huge, too heavy with light to

be so nimble.

— Margery Hutter Silver

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