Author: Maureen Mulhern
Maureen Mulhern has had poems appear in Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner. Her first book of poetry, Parallax, was published by Wesleyan University Press. She has an undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop. Originally from England, Mulhern later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. She and her husband have one son, seven cats, and are the founders of an independent jazz record label, Juniper Records.
Poems, Vol. 29, No. 3
Nature’s Mathematics Elements, the smell of minerals Rinsing the sky, Crickets beginning their green monotony, An abducted child pressing nails into skin— Familiar landscapes unravel the ardor Of change, sunflowers weighed down by heat, Hothouse orchids opening In their dreamy lack of speech. Here, autumn arrives with temporal design As others deliver a world …