Maria Hummel is the author of the novels Wilderness Run, Motherland, Still Lives, Lesson in Red, and Goldenseal (2024) and of House and Fire, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize in poetry. Her work was also featured in the 2012 Pushcart Prize anthology, and she was a finalist in Narrative’s Second Annual Poetry Contest. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry, Hummel is a professor at the University of Vermont and lives in Vermont with her husband and sons.

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by Maria Hummel

this comb for the ghost’s hair
this ridgeline treeless and sheer

it smells like tea gone cold
weighs less than a vein pumped full

People on couch

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