Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of numerous books, including fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, and translations. Her wide-ranging body of work includes the coming-of-age novel Leaving Brooklyn; the poetry collection In Solitary; the memoir Not Now, Voyager; and the essay collection This Is Where We Came In. Schwartz is on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in Manhattan.

Forgetting

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Absence rarely makes the heart grow
fonder, or so my mother said, popping
a blackberry into her mouth—

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