Cate Lycurgus, Second Place winner in Narrative’s Fourteenth Annual Poetry Contest, received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Indiana University. She lives south of San Francisco, California, where she teaches professional writing to aspiring accountants.



SECOND PLACE WINNER


Dependents and Other Poems

by Cate Lycurgus

Dependents

The year we were each other’s house-
hold, I held on

tight the flapper sealed the bowl except
for the crescent


where it didn’t stop running water
from rooms away
People on couch
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