Martha Webster is a registered nurse living on Long Island. Her poems have appeared in Laurel Review, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Cortland Review, Collagist, Prairie Schooner, Pidgeonholes, and Mad River Review.



Martha Webster

Samsara

21 degrees of ice and snow needles behind vintage Baccarat Shalimar bottles on my beveled glass window shelf. Sniff and sample Lanvin leaded crystal — sparkling darkly on a mirrored vanity tray. Trilene gas — what my father ethered patients with. I snifter-cradle my cognac, grounding. Deepening by the hour, the prozac snow.



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