Melissa Mulvihill
Melissa writes from northeast Ohio where she lives with her husband and sons, 18 and 22. She has been published in multiple issues of The Blue Nib Literary Magazine, The Blue Nib Intermission, The Write Launch Literary Magazine, Poet's Haven Digest, Strange Land Anthology, The Distance Between Insanity and Genius Anthology, and in the Dark and Stormy Night Anthology. Her poem, Your Phone Call, appeared in The Blue Nib 2017 Anthology. She writes about living with the fallout from a decade of treatment for stage 4 endometriosis, growing kids, and moments that demand telling from everyday life.
“At the Mercy of My Own Forgetting,” “The Rent I Pay” and “By the Dead Purple Lady”
declares the forgetting man
under the florescent lights
his face shadowless
in a shadowed world
that he knows where it is
once and for all
under the florescent lights
his face shadowless
in a shadowed world
that he knows where it is
once and for all
Poetry
Issue 26, June 2019
Issues Archive
“The Carving Tree”, “Evidence of a Struggle” and “Unbearably Gone”
I was not born in these kinds of waters
but I came to believe and to canoe away
on the river of silty glass
bugs skating the surface
sunlight pouring into me
laughter echoing off the empty
voices raised, poles poised, fish fleeing upstream even.
but I came to believe and to canoe away
on the river of silty glass
bugs skating the surface
sunlight pouring into me
laughter echoing off the empty
voices raised, poles poised, fish fleeing upstream even.
Poetry
Issue 20, December 2018
Issues Archive
“The Bats in the Willow”, “Revenant Gloam” and “I Cannot Make Permanent Things”
Bats, the revenant gloam, and impermanence are the subjects of Mulvihill’s poetry here. Yes, their commonality may not be obvious, but Mulviill’s storytelling marks her poetry—personal and unequivocally forthright. Her voice is her truth.
Poetry
Issue 7, November 2017
Issues Archive
Melissa Mulvihill
Melissa writes from northeast Ohio where she lives with her husband and sons, 18 and 22. She has been published in multiple issues of The Blue Nib Literary Magazine, The Blue Nib Intermission, The Write Launch Literary Magazine, Poet's Haven Digest, Strange Land Anthology, The Distance Between Insanity and Genius Anthology, and in the Dark and Stormy Night Anthology. Her poem, Your Phone Call, appeared in The Blue Nib 2017 Anthology. She writes about living with the fallout from a decade of treatment for stage 4 endometriosis, growing kids, and moments that demand telling from everyday life.
“At the Mercy of My Own Forgetting,” “The Rent I Pay” and “By the Dead Purple Lady”
declares the forgetting man
under the florescent lights
his face shadowless
in a shadowed world
that he knows where it is
once and for all
under the florescent lights
his face shadowless
in a shadowed world
that he knows where it is
once and for all
Poetry
Issue 26, June 2019
Issues Archive
“The Carving Tree”, “Evidence of a Struggle” and “Unbearably Gone”
I was not born in these kinds of waters
but I came to believe and to canoe away
on the river of silty glass
bugs skating the surface
sunlight pouring into me
laughter echoing off the empty
voices raised, poles poised, fish fleeing upstream even.
but I came to believe and to canoe away
on the river of silty glass
bugs skating the surface
sunlight pouring into me
laughter echoing off the empty
voices raised, poles poised, fish fleeing upstream even.
Poetry
Issue 20, December 2018
Issues Archive
“The Bats in the Willow”, “Revenant Gloam” and “I Cannot Make Permanent Things”
Bats, the revenant gloam, and impermanence are the subjects of Mulvihill’s poetry here. Yes, their commonality may not be obvious, but Mulviill’s storytelling marks her poetry—personal and unequivocally forthright. Her voice is her truth.
Poetry
Issue 7, November 2017
Issues Archive