Like the moon, I turn away from the sea and the trails you have braided down to the sea. I turn my back to your woods where a woman was raped last summer though I loved you and once stood on your bluff looking out at the dock, stretched like a spine as the sun […]
Clara Collins
Clara Collins is a poet and teacher based in Bellingham, Washington. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and is an alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Mississippi Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Radar Poetry, Ellipsis, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on her first full-length poetry collection.