she’d pull this red dress from the rack/ (where I will leave it), and bear it home/ to me because I wear too much black.
Mia Schilling Grogan
Mia Schilling Grogan is an associate professor of English at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. Her poems have most recently appeared in Commonweal, The Christian Century and Presence. Her first poetry collection is Mid-Flight Birder, published by Kelsay Books.
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Discernment of Spirits
for years I’d be the cranky older son,
jealous about the party.