I invent old woman childless as me and my friends. Call her Eulalie, Sophronia, one of those perfumed names no longer in use. Shaken out: a few dead moths last century’s clover. Or Grandmother, honorary title she can exchange at the bodega for jalapeno potato chips, bottles of beer, eternal devotion. She’s home on Thursdays. […]
Margaret Diehl
Margaret Diehl has published two chapbooks of poems Exit Seraphim, by Ravenna Press (2023) it all stayed open (Red Glass Books, 2011), two novels and a memoir (Men, 1989, Me and You, 1990 and The Boy on the Green Bicycle, 1999, all from Soho Press) as well as poems, short stories, and essays in literary journals, including Kestrel, The Chattahoochee Review, Kenyon Review, The American Journal of Poetry, AMP, Cloudbank, Main Street Rag, The Adirondack Review, Sequestrum, and Gargoyle. She lives in New York City.