Betsy Littrell

Betsy Littrell is a whimsical soccer mom of four boys as well as a Navy wife. She is working on her MFA at San Diego State University, where she was recently awarded the Sarah Marsh Rebelo scholarship for poetry. In addition, she is a journalist at KGTV and volunteers with Poetic Youth.

“Elegy to the Queen of Hearts,” “3 Otis Street,” and “For My Brother”

Mechanically, you circled
out of the garage, the same
one you parked in Monday through
Friday for the past 25
years. When you reached the exit,

you couldn’t remember which
way to turn to make it to
the same house you lived in for
19 years. That’s when the doctors
discovered the tumor.
  • Issue 22, February 2019
  • Poetry
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