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About Dorian Kotsiopoulos
Dorian Kotsiopoulos has been featured at various poetry venues in Massachusetts. Publications include Salamander, Slipstream, Women’s Review of Books, WomenArts Quarterly, Poet Lore, Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, and Main Street Rag. Recently, she participated in a group reading for the Gwendolyn Brooks Centenary sponsored by the Munroe Center for the Arts in Lexington, MA.
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Drifting here on the far side of the moon and sun, she feels strangely at peace. Trigger does, too, in the falling rain and the question of goodbye.
The honeycomb is perfect for learning math. “Exact hexagons,” it says. I like that word. It’s a word my mother would have liked, too—she was a word person.
There are two types of nurses: ones who believe in ghosts, and ones who are lying. We don’t talk about it much, especially now that the war is over. There’s not much to say, and no one wants to remember….