“From Mars” by Megan Pinto (poetry ’18)
An excerpt from “From Mars” by Megan Pinto (poetry ’18), published by Passages North.
From Mars
Each person has their own reason: the man sitting next to me drove his wife into a tree, and the lady scaling that volcano just miscarried. The stars cannot understand our grief, so I take off my space suit and show them my skin, places I’ve ripped into again and again. You’ve told me you cannot love me, and I’m trying to understand but it hurts. Out here, Earth looks tiny—like a pretty, marbled thing, and you are so far away.
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