Maggie Hess's Writings
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Nov.10.2011
I dug through the recycling bin
to send you these words,
to sort out my mind,
to sweep this your way.
But... that was it.
No money for Tobin (the dog).
No change for Pickle (the cat).
No false teeth or hearing aid.
But... because of what you taught me,
My principlesof what matters here.
The values of words, and
Writing out my thoughts.
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Essay
Nov.08.2011
I. Lunar Phases
I had my period with the full moon, the light bleeding through my bedroom window waking my ovaries with a fever. You might have too, a woman in a dorm room above me. Nothing is deeper down than the sub-basement. Kaleigh, a new transfer and friend of a friend of a...
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Poem
Mar.28.2010
Friends Journal
Mountaintop Removal
On a rickety front porch of a one hundred year old house,I sit proud of my heritage. These mountains are not shortBecause they are naive; they are short and old and wise.
Coal divides the rich and the poor in an equation of greed.Coal sends poverty moving in the regions where it is mined,If the people live at all. Nothing is as ugly as...
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Poem
Mar.28.2010
Friends Journal
Pelican Flying -New Orleans, Louisiana
When I try to clear my head of the other, to find what and where I am, I start by blackening the image of billboards. I remove your words and songs from my mind's ear. I shut off even my own smells and tastes and feelings. I shut my eyes and concentrate on nothing. I close my instincts to absorb the other so that all left...
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About Maggie
I am a student at Berea College. I have been published in Friends Jounral, Alehouse, the Berea College Website, A! Magazine, and was awarded the Leidig Poetry Award.
Connections
Maggie’s Favorite Books
To Kill a Mockingbird, One Day in Maine, Blueberries for Sal, The Garden, The Library.