Bio

Esther Greenleaf Murer lives in Philadelphia. At 75, she has just published her first poetry collection, Unglobed Fruit. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, mostly online, and she has twice had poems nominated for Best of the Net. Blog: http://esthergreenleafmurer.blogspot.com/

Back
when
I was
a child I
never got any
mail and I couldn't understand
how my father could throw away letters unopened.
I used to fish the envelopes out of the wastebasket and call them "my 'portant mail."

But now that I'm grown and the mailman brings the daily yammer of puffed-up charities
vaunting themselves and behaving themselves unseemly
most of my mail goes straight to the
recycle just like
my father's
mail did
back
then.