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Elizabeth Mercurio
Elizabeth Mercurio is the author of the chapbooks Doll and Words in a Night Jar. Her work has appeared in Lily Poetry Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, Vox Populi, and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominated poet and was named a finalist in the Cordella Press Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize and the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Poetry Prize. You can find her at: https://www.elizabethmercurio.com/
Grief Brushes in a New Year
Emptiness grabs hold of me makes the coffee bitter, the jam less sweet. Daddy, your shirts are in the closet. For months I could not hug you, to protect you from the virus. You died anyway. I want to be a girl again — perched at the top of the stairs I’d wait for you […]