“The night you were born, a village grew up from the frozen ground in Siberia.
In the beginning, the house walls were cartilaginous and uncertain.
As you grew older they hardened into bone.”
Mary Haidri is the author of the play Every Path (La Jolla Playhouse). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Permafrost Magazine, Pigeon Pages, Treehouse Magazine, The Molotov Cocktail, Winter Tangerine, Portland Review, Nightingale, Bird’s Thumb, and Fairy Tale Review. She was the recipient of the 2017 Fairy Tale Review Poetry Award and the 2018 Shadow Award. She is a poetry reader for Fairy Tale Review and a collaborator of Nettleworks, a creative collective (nettleworks.com).
Contact her at mhaidri@pdx.edu
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