Master of the Female Half-Lengths
“the women’s heart-shaped / faces like pale evenings cracked / with elegant longing for assignations.”
Mirande Bissell is a teacher and poet who lives in the Patapsco River Valley, west of Baltimore. Her first book of poems, Stalin at the Opera, won the Ghost Peach Press Prize and was published in 2021.
“the women’s heart-shaped / faces like pale evenings cracked / with elegant longing for assignations.”