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Marney Rathbun

Marney Rathbun is a substance abuse counselor and high school teacher in Massachusetts. Rathbun’s writing has been featured in Salt Hill JournalCosmonauts Avenue, and The Fourth River, and in their chapbook I call my father by his name (Jubilat, 2016). Rathbun is at work on a first collection.

Poetry

Sept/Oct 2022

Splinter

By Marney Rathbun

when my father died, M and I tacked Northampton’s train tracks past a bakery named Hungry Ghost I slept in a corner dorm room where he was a hungry ghost […]