Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Summer 1998 • Vol. XX No. 3/4 • Poetry |

Consultation

I heard the doctors whisper
in the hall outside my door.
Grown men seldom whisper
unless someone is asleep.

But they must have seen I was
excessively alert.
Safe in bed, yet in the distance
the sound of shelling. . . .

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