Volume 63: 2024 – Page 10 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Volume 63: 2024

INHERITANCE

Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 My aunt stopped depositing her pension and dividend checks. White wicker utility baskets overflowed with unopened brokerage and bank statements, medical reports, coupons, and co-op newsletters. Ophthalmologist follow-up reminders mingled among a handful of Mass cards, and straggler notes from old friends were stranded between bills. Some loosely bound […]

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Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 My aunt stopped depositing her pension and dividend checks. White wicker utility baskets overflowed with unopened brokerage and bank statements, medical reports, coupons, and co-op newsletters. Ophthalmologist follow-up reminders mingled among a handful of Mass cards, and straggler notes from old friends were stranded between bills. Some loosely bound

PHILOMELA IN TEXAS

Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 Joshua Robbins is the author of Praise Nothing (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), part of the Miller Williams Series in Poetry, and Eschatology in Crayon Wax (Texas Review Press, 2024). His recognitions include, among others, the James Wright Poetry Award, the New South Prize, and a Walter E. Dakin

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Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 Joshua Robbins is the author of Praise Nothing (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), part of the Miller Williams Series in Poetry, and Eschatology in Crayon Wax (Texas Review Press, 2024). His recognitions include, among others, the James Wright Poetry Award, the New South Prize, and a Walter E. Dakin

DAPHNE

Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 She can be foundin two placesin the indexin Edith Hamilton’sMythology: underDaphne––whereshe belongs––and under Apollo,where she strugglednot to be. There,it reads: Apollo,Daphne lovedby––as if. Asif overtakingcould beconfusedwith love, asif a womandidn’t haveto choosebetween beingDaphne, byApollo stolen,or being––instead––a tree be-yond him. Andrea Cohen’s most recent poetry collections are Everything and Nightshade;

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Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 She can be foundin two placesin the indexin Edith Hamilton’sMythology: underDaphne––whereshe belongs––and under Apollo,where she strugglednot to be. There,it reads: Apollo,Daphne lovedby––as if. Asif overtakingcould beconfusedwith love, asif a womandidn’t haveto choosebetween beingDaphne, byApollo stolen,or being––instead––a tree be-yond him. Andrea Cohen’s most recent poetry collections are Everything and Nightshade;

THE GOETHEANUM

Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 “THE GOETHEANUM” begins innocently enough. Our speaker sits on the toilet, scrolling through their phone. And yet, the portals made and unmade in Cheney’s work shift this poem from its quotidian morning stance to something shimmery, extraordinary. This is a poem that thrums with life forms, with the spatial,

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Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 “THE GOETHEANUM” begins innocently enough. Our speaker sits on the toilet, scrolling through their phone. And yet, the portals made and unmade in Cheney’s work shift this poem from its quotidian morning stance to something shimmery, extraordinary. This is a poem that thrums with life forms, with the spatial,

IN A RAIN OF FLOWERS

Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 We are contained in rooms leaking with absence. New recruits to the cult of death,  we dress differently, sheathed in black armor. The house stirs.We pace the interior.  * The restless sleep of the house keeps us up at night shiftingits wood shingles,  never comfortable, it moves to let street

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Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 We are contained in rooms leaking with absence. New recruits to the cult of death,  we dress differently, sheathed in black armor. The house stirs.We pace the interior.  * The restless sleep of the house keeps us up at night shiftingits wood shingles,  never comfortable, it moves to let street

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