Today's poem is
"Orange Blossom"
from The Bitter Oleander
Ivy Marie
studies creative writing and English Literature at Mercer University. She was the 2019 winner of the Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets and the 2021 poetry winner of the Agnes Scott Writers' Festival. She has been published in Glass Mountain Magazine and Plain China. She also interns with Macon Magazine and Mercer University Press and edits The Dulcimer and The Mercer Cluster.
Other poems on the web by Ivy Marie:
"holy"
"Portrait of a Poet as a Young Woman"
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