Chelsea B. DesAutels is the author of A Dangerous Place, named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She earned and MFA from the University of Houston and holds degrees from the University of Minnesota Law School and Wellesley College. The founder of Freshwater Writing, she lives with her family in Minneapolis.

Some Half-World

by Chelsea B. DesAutels

What can I say about how the snow
is falling this morning, almost imperceptibly?
I am a long way from the people I love.
Distance, I’m discovering, is better
in the imagination, though my imagination
has been weak lately, caught

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