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Mary McMyne

Mary McMyne

April 17, 2013 by PBQ

Mary McMyne lives and writes in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. Her poetry is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review and has recently appeared in a number of other journals, including Pedestal Magazine, Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism, Prime Number Magazine,and New Delta Review. She won the Faulkner Prize for a Novel-in-Progress for her project retelling the Odysseus myth […]

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Mary McMyne: Heyghoge

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

Blind, he wandered about in the forest, eating nothing but grass and roots, and doing nothing but weeping and wailing over the loss of his beloved wife.            —  from “Rapunzel” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1857, tr. Ashliman)     Into the thorns you fell, a poor thing, to become blind eater of grass and […]

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Mary McMyne: Irène Joliot-Curie

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

As a girl I learned the elements. With a pencil my mother Marie sketched the shapes of compounds: the honeycomb of water, the zigzag of sugar, the gridiron of salt. This is the way it is, she said. Everything has its own form. I believed her until the day I saw the woman in the […]

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Mary McMyne: The Butterfly Dome

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

Grand Isle, Louisiana   On the way to the Butterfly Dome, leaves leapt from the trees. A black truck weaved across the highway, its bumper stuck with eight letters in gold: R.I.P. STEVE. My daughter cried. My son tickled her toes. Hush, he said. We’re almost there, almost.   Inside the dome, butterflies twitched their […]

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