She Flies

                                                            by Margaret Marcum

as if her wings

had never been torn

She leads the wind and breathes

in the tide—still, mourning comes with every sigh

You let me down

only since you held me up

too high

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Margaret Marcum is currently a graduate student in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She graduated with a B.A. (emphasis on poetry) from the University of Redlands, where she was a member of the Proudian Interdisciplinary Honors Program. Her literary interests include animal rights, healing the collective through personal narrative, vegan studies, and ecofeminism. Her poems previously appeared in Literary Veganism and Children, Churches, and Daddies.