The abstract shape of the American social consciousness, a wintry landscape of marriage, motherhood, and grief.

Before the Fevered Snow 

A loving, lyrical ode to the bond shared between mother and child

These Words I Shaped For You 

 It is our hope that we can share of each other’s knowledge, and in the spirit of Ancora Imparo –
“ I am still learning”.

Pirene's Fountain 

It is our hope that we can share of each other’s knowledge, and in the spirit of Ancora Imparo –
“ I am still learning".

Grief Flowers exposes with unsettling accuracy what loss would look like if we could subject it to an x-ray.

Grief Flowers 

Poetry Daily 

Lullaby - a short, animated film based upon the poem of the same title by Megan Merchant, selected as winner of the 2016-17 COG Poetry Awards by former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.

"Lullaby", COG Literary Award Winner 

This gorgeous and compact poem won Bear Review’s first annual Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize for a single outstanding piece. 

"Every day I draw a different bird"

“This coming of winter,” it intones. “Last night, a pack of coyotes chewed a raven until / black feathers blessed the ground.”

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