Melody Wilson

Melody Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon. Recent work appears in Quartet, Front Porch Review, Re Dactions, and Sky Island Review. New work will appear in Sugar House Review, Nimrod and The Fiddlehead. She received the 2021 Kay Snow Award and high recognition from the Oberon, Dobler, and Pablo Neruda Awards.

“By Saturday,” “Aqualung,” and “Tumble and Fall”

something settles. Next week’s
oatmeal eases into simmer,
the wide slow mouths of the first
few bubbles no longer startle
and pop as the surface smooths,
heaves with the humility

of normal mornings. It’s a chore—
the boil, filtering through
what I know, what is new.

Issue 66, October 2022

Melody Wilson

Melody Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon. Recent work appears in Quartet, Front Porch Review, Re Dactions, and Sky Island Review. New work will appear in Sugar House Review, Nimrod and The Fiddlehead. She received the 2021 Kay Snow Award and high recognition from the Oberon, Dobler, and Pablo Neruda Awards.

“By Saturday,” “Aqualung,” and “Tumble and Fall”

something settles. Next week’s
oatmeal eases into simmer,
the wide slow mouths of the first
few bubbles no longer startle
and pop as the surface smooths,
heaves with the humility

of normal mornings. It’s a chore—
the boil, filtering through
what I know, what is new.

Issue 66, October 2022

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