Christie Towers, Third Place winner in Narrative’s Tenth Annual Poetry Contest, received a BFA in poetry from Emerson College and is an MFA candidate at the University of Massachusetts. A finalist in Narrative’s First and Second Annual Poetry Contests, she lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.





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Air and Space

by Christie Towers

You walk and the world bends toward you, curls to correlate,

unthinking as leaves waiting for rain—hands belly-up and bare,
rubbed a clean, silvered
green. Little comet, it is January

1964 and I know where you are.
People on couch
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