Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox, winner of the 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and Last Train to the Midnight Market (2013). Born in South Korea, she received a BA from Carnegie Mellon and an MFA from Florida International University. A finalist in Narrative’s Seventh Annual Poetry Contest, she is a producer for The Working Poet Radio Show and lives in Coral Gables, Florida.

Bonsai

an iPoem

by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

As a bent man with insubstantial hands
wires the skin of a miniature myrtle,

People on couch

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