There is a June Bug carcass tethered to the window screen as if by specters. Each storm passing by rattles all it left behind. Its exoskeleton no longer a deep chestnut now caramel-colored & full of wind. I’ve watched it for days, a crater where its body erupted. Somehow, despite the loss, it hangs onto the screen […]
Minadora Macheret
Minadora Macheret is a Herbert Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. She received the James Merrill Poetry Fellowship from Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Salamander, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is the author of, Love Me, Anyway (Porkbelly Press, 2018).