The hawthorn tree had one cardinal, sharping the sky like scissors when I went out to get the morning paper. On the walkway, there are always stray rubber bands, clean enough that a person picking them up could be seen as only slightly cracked. Everything is a gift if you choose to receive it. I […]
Marilyn Cavicchia
Marilyn Cavicchia lives in Chicago and works as a freelance grant writer. She recently resumed submitting poems for publication after a lapse of a few years. From this most recent round, two of her poems appeared in the July 2026 issue of The Lake. Her chapbook, Secret Rivers, received the Helen Kay Chapbook Prize and was published by Evening Street Press in 2014.