Your hands,
like small white birds,
are still.  Then suddenly
they flutter away from their nest,
my hands.



Miriam N. Kotzin

is an associate professor of English at Drexel University, co-directs the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing and teaches creative writing and literature. Her fiction and poetry have been published widely in literary journals. She is a contributing editor of Boulevard and a founding editor of Per Contra: the International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Reclaiming the Dead (New American Press, 2008) and Weights & Measures (Star Cloud Press, 2009) and a collection of flash fiction Just Desserts (Star Cloud Press 2010). In 2011 Star Cloud will publish a third collection of her poetry, Taking Stock. Don Gastwirth represents her novel, Cutter’s Vision. She writes a bi-weekly column, "Second Acts," for The Smart Set.



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