Abigail Warren
Conversation After Her Death

“Margaret, a hat no more belongs
in your hands than
gloves on the top of your head.”
So the good Sister
made her sit through Mass
with the gloves
on top of her head.

The only story she told me

that leads me into
her silence, and mine
where we meet to talk.

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Abigail Warren lives in Northampton, MA and teaches writing, literature, and poetry at Cambridge College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Monarch Review, Duct, Forge, Brink Magazine, Emerson Review, Dos Passos Review, and Hawaii Pacific Review.

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