“Call Me,” by Nicole Chvatal (Poetry ’19)

2019 poetry graduate Nicole Chvatal recently had a poem featured in the Portland Press Herald. Read an excerpt below:

Call Me

It used to be Herb Lily
had my number
but now that I have his
when local lobstermen call
442-8531 looking for alewives
at five in the morning,
it takes me three or four rings
to answer no, I’m not married,
you’ve dialed the wrong number what time is it this isn’t
the water department.

Read the poem in its entirety here: https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/12/deep-water-call-me-by-nicole-chvatal/