night/cabin/lakeside

Painting of a cabin on a small hill near a body of water

The Customs Cabin, Ferdinand du Puigaudeau, 19th c.

Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Mara Adamitz Scrupe is a poet and writer, visual artist, and documentary…

in the afternoon’s garden/ in the casualty – from the root
casual – of a chance

occurrence/ our encounter cloaked

in the reservoir of early evening in the parsimoniousness

of dying light

could be its fortune benched for plenty

row-upon-row gloaming/ a mongrel

fragrance of rosemary & lavender reaching

for threshold in a vigil of sprinkling in near nighttime
scratching – squirrels in the attic bats under

the eaves –

& a cabin’s enveloping

black sky scarring/ starry pinpricks I can’t single
out – such torrent & opulence/ openings

& closings & possibilities –

& our only constant: mosquito clouds of love

for blood buzzing around our heads

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night poetry

Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Mara Adamitz Scrupe is a poet and writer, visual artist, and documentary filmmaker. Her publications include five full poetry collections: Lamentations of the Tattoo Queen (2024), REAP a flora (2023), in the bare bones house of was (2020), Eat The Marrow (2019), and BEAST (2014). She has selections in generational anthologies by Southword/ Munster Literature, Aesthetica, Stony Thursday, and 64 Best Poets/ Black Mountain Press, and poems in key UK and US journals including Radar, Rhino, Tupelo, Cincinnati Review, The London Magazine, Mslexia, Magma, Abridged, and The Poetry Business/ Smith Doorstop. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, she has won or been shortlisted for significant literary awards. Mara is a fellow of the MacDowell Fellow and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and she resides with her husband on their farm in the Blue Ridge Piedmont countryside of Virginia.