A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at SUNY Brockport, Alicia Hoffman lives, writes, and teaches in Rochester, New York. Her poetry has recently appeared in Redactions: Poetry and Poetics, Red Wheelbarrow, Hazmat Literary Review, Poetry MidWest, Umbrella, The Centrifugal Eye, Boston Literary Magazine, Orange Room Review, Oak Bend Review, and elsewhere.
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Turn
Autumn leaves catch and burn
outside the suburban window
as she confirms, locks the box
of her thoughts, her decision
to opt out of treatments sealed
now, sensing, as she does, something
beautiful in dying young. The world
will go, as it always does, on and
like an infant exhausted from
the constant reaching for a twirling
mobile hanging from the sky
of the room, always out of reach,
frustrated in the confines of the crib,
she, too, lies back, wishing to turn. |
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