I walked into the room where she shrieked and tore at the strings of her blue gown said, it’s pulling my heart out, said, can’t you see the blood? Her gaze looks past it all into another life when she cooked at dawn, drew water from wells and smiled at dirty children. One second […]
Thomasin LaMay
Thomasin LaMay teaches women’s studies, music, and works in the library at Goucher College, Baltimore. She has a Ph.D in music history/women’s performance practice from the University of Michigan, has published in academic journals, and edited Musical Voices of Early Modern Women: many-headed melodies. She spends as much time as she can at the Ivy Bookshop, imagining herself an unfinished poem. She also tutors high school kids in southwest Baltimore. She’s been writing poetry since she was a kid, and lives in Baltimore city with at least 200 books, 55 plants, a dog, 3 cats, some strays who visit, and amazing neighbors.