Margaret Marcum

After 

Love crawling on walls, 
speeding toward slow 
Riding up to the moon and she’s gone away 
circling back softly as if 
here to stay leaving 
like a shattered mirror—please 
sweep away my broken heart, 
reflection once so clear 
disfigured hanging now 
on to cold fragments, only 
parts of before

Margaret Marcum lives in Delray Beach with her three cats, Angel Clare, Alice, and Adam. She recently graduated from the MFA program in creative writing at Florida Atlantic University. Her poems have appeared in Amethyst Review, NonBinary Review, Scapegoat Review, October Hill Magazine, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, and Children, Churches, and Daddies, among others.