Mermer Blakeslee is the author of the novels Same Blood and In Dark Water, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Drawing on her work as a professional skier, she wrote A Conversation with Fear. She was awarded the 2006 Narrative Prize for “Leenie,” an excerpt from her novel When You Live by a River, (Narrative Library, 2012), and was a finalist in Narrative’s First and Second Annual Poetry Contests. Blakeslee lives in the Catskill Mountains with her husband.

Photograph by Rose Mackiewicz.

Visitation

by Mermer Blakeslee

The day’s almost gone by
and no one has arrived to say:

Here is where you touch the world
and here are the words to feel its heat.
People on couch
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