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Tucked up in a strange blue bed under the eaves the mind of this house by the lake has me held tight like a gem in its mouth, it has me close and new and I’m making only memories of this house. Sears-built and funky, hand-rigged cabinets in every room, none of it is professional none of it quite square or normal. I’m a fresh new thing here; made for this moment— the tool at hand. Outside the lake freezes and my car crouches in the drive; friends sleep narrowly in the rooms below me, but I’m in the rafters. I’m unhooked from life.
Sara Eddy's poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in the Threepenny Review, the Baltimore Review, and Spank the Carp. Her chapbook of poems about bees and beekeeping, Tell the Bees, was released in October of 2019 by A3 Press. Another poetry chapbook, Full Mouth, was published by Finishing Line Press in November 2020. She is Assistant Director of the writing center at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and lives in nearby Amherst with a teenager, a black cat, a white dog, and three beehives.
