What and how do we remember? Which details get imagined and re-imagined with the passing of time? These two questions are central to “At a Restaurant in Portland, ME” and “Vibrato.” The former probes a painful memory, while the latter explores the pleasures of the everyday. I tried to shed light on the intimacy between the speaker and her partner—an intimacy that is delightful and full of possibility but also vulnerable.

Shannon K. Winston’s book, The Girl Who Talked to Paintings (Glass Lyre Press), was published in 2021. Her individual poems have appeared in Bracken, Cider Press Review, On the Seawall, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and lives in Bloomington, IN. 

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