Days became a hallway. I became a door, my face in its muteness. In a clearing I was a pond. In a backyard I was dying but I still had my thinking, which was a globe, then a porch, then a boat. Gently rocking, docked in night. Skin of light. Oars, water, oars. The accordion of it, my accordion.
Julia Story is the author of the full-length poetry collections Post Moxie and Spinster for Hire and the chapbooks The Trapdoor and Julie the Astonishing. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in many publications including Diode, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Denver Quarterly, and The New Yorker. She is from Indiana and now lives in Massachusetts.