Bio

Maggie Bokelman is a librarian at Eagle View Middle School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, who enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for reading and writing poetry with staff members and students. She has an M.A. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin, an M.A. from Temple University in English, and is currently pursuing an M.A. in Children's Literature from Hollins University.

Tight
whorl
unfurls
in perfect
logarithmic swirls.
Ever pushing forward, never
slipping back, the chambered nautilus builds pearly walls,
sealing the past as it grows. Years hence, the walls endure, a briny shrine to cast-off lives.