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night/cabin/lakeside

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August 2, 2024
Painting of a cabin on a small hill near a body of water
The Customs Cabin, Ferdinand du Puigaudeau, 19th c.

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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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.

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