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Maia McPherson is a graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English, which first brought her to New Mexico in the summer of 2009. Since that time, she has returned for long and short stays, always finding herself inspired by its landscape and people. Maia is of Croatian decent, and has traveled extensively throughout the Balkans. Currently, she is a visual arts teacher in Boston Public Schools.
Mercury Poetry: The woods eat war and forget it
The metal jackets of bullets
rust in the dark river
beyond the weaving grass.
Lightning bugs rise up
in their landscape gaping
with old graves overgrown.
Tractor guts rot and ripped
up soil becomes nutritious...
10. January 2015
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