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Maura Pellettieri
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Maura Pellettieri
Maura Pellettieri is a poet and prose writer. She received her MFA at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work appears in The Kenyon Review,The Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland, where she teaches ecopoetics and creative writing. She is the founding editor of Crystal and Flame, a journal of art and poetics.

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Vol. 82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

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October 30, 2024
This house isn’t haunted, has never been, but that will change when, some years from now, I will sometimes feel a chill, and sometimes I will feel alone, and sometimes a voice will say, “Who are you and what have you done with Donna?” And I will try to respond, but I won’t know who Donna is, won’t even know a Donna. I fear I might someday learn.
October 23, 2024
People like to believe they have influence over disasters, catastrophes, losses—by which they mean control—but that’s illusion, and she was done with illusion. Could she write that in her report? You’re all suffering under an illusion. Instead, she picked up the phone and texted: Island//illusion. Illusion//island. They sound the same when you say them enough. There’s a word for that, but I can’t remember it now. I can’t remember anything clearly. All my words are inverted and mirrored. edrorrim. See?
October 16, 2024
Last night I was certain
pppyou were there with a gift
light balanced against shadow

fugitives move along fence lines
cities burningppp
we’re asked to send money
cities burn
where are the plans
there were no bells, no sirens, no warningpppthe cities burned