You long for a past you didn’t have
the way your tongue keeps finding
empty space that once held a tooth
surprised to find it gone and certain
it will return.
Denise Clemons holds a BA in Biopsychology from Vassar College and earned an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She spent the first twenty years of her career as an executive in the technology industry before escaping the corporate world to devote her energies to the non-profit arena. She has published fiction, non-fiction and poetry in journals, chapbooks and anthologies.
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