Bio
Mary McColley is a writer and poet originally from Maine. She has wandered and worked for a number of years in France, Thailand, and Palestine. Her pastimes include killing lobsters and selling street art.
Mary McColley
Instinct
Sea-turtles moor precise on beaches
Marbled newts tilt striped sight star-side.
Lobsters side-step parlors with spined, magnetic ear.
My family's women know how
To divide divide divide divide
How to gaze with a benign and steady eye, wink malignant.
As salmon thrash upstream we slip
Beneath white-rapid sheets,
Sliced beneath surgeon's knives as if our own potatoes, beets.
We know how to bleed exceedingly
And wash it from our clothes,
Take your pick, skin-bone-lung-uterus, surfeit of destructions.
As geese haunt blue roads of air with long, true wings
We too, drive familiar routes, every last cell
Watching for the graveyard turn.