Laura Foley, second place winner of Narrative’s Fifteenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of ten poetry collections, including Why I Never Finished my Dissertation. She is a winner of the Good Books Poetry Contest, the Milton Kessler Award, and the Bunner Medal from Columbia University, where she received an MA and an MPhil in comparative literature. She lives with her wife in West Lebanon, New Hampshire.



SECOND PLACE WINNER


Amaryllis

by Laura Foley
My oldest sister sends me
and our other sister
an amaryllis for Christmas
just as Dad used to. Who
wouldn’t like such a gift?
People on couch
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