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
Autoportrait
Windchime glint to the greased light painted on my cheeks
Strict symmetry, were a line chalked down my nose
Gargoyle gaze
Insistent rib and nominal chest
Crooked fingers ring-waisted, skin a window to the vein
Tired eye of mottled blue
A smile I brandish like a street swindler's petition
And never wear at home.