Ron MacLean is the author of the novels Headlong (Last Light Studio, 2013), and Blue Winnetka Skies, as well as the story collection Why the Long Face? He received the Frederick Exley Award for Short Fiction, and is a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee. MacLean earned a PhD in English from the State University of New York at Albany and lives in Boston.

River Song

by Ron MacLean

1.

A little girl with the face of a ghost
(where it begins)

remember that innocence is risky,
memory inconclusive
(it will not end well)

from a bridge somewhere,
occasions of wonderment.
Touch her belly (hear her sing).

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