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Sarah Maclay ’s poems, reviews and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, FIELD, Hotel Amerika, The Writer’s Chronicle, Solo, Pool, ZZYZYVA, lyric, Runes, Cider Press Review and numerous other publications including Poetry International , where she currently serves as book review editor. New work is forthcoming in Ninth Letter and The Journal . Her debut collection, Whore , received the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry and was released in 2004. She was also a winner of the dA Center for the Arts Poetry Prize, a finalist for the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry and a semi-finalist for the Kenyon Review Poetry Prize (Zoo Press), the Cleveland State University Poetry Prize and the Tupelo Press First Book Prize, and she recently received a Pushcart nomination. Last summer she appeared as a “first books” panelist at the Napa Valley Writers Conference. The author of three chapbooks, Ice from the Belly (Farstarfire press),...
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Welcome winter.  I saw your stars, your moon. I imagined I could rise up and drift through the veiled constellations,  glide through the claws of the crab, the horns of the bull, and the mist of Aquarius, leaving behind the scent of roses and milkweed, fresh grass, and burning autumn leaves.   while others froze, I'd float as I rose, and wrap myself in mist, weaving strands of aurora green.