Lottery & Deciding When Enough is Enough
“She tells me her birds have come to visit her again today. / One pecked and chirped at the window where she sat. / It’s your brother, she says. I don’t disagree.”
Heather Myers is from Altoona, Pennsylvania. She is working towards an MFA in Creative Writing at West Virginia University. She is the recipient of a 2018 AWP intro award and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Puerto Del Sol, Yes Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly and Luna Luna Magazine. She can be found online at heathervmyers.com and on twitter @heathervmyers.
“She tells me her birds have come to visit her again today. / One pecked and chirped at the window where she sat. / It’s your brother, she says. I don’t disagree.”