The Plastic Cup
Some things you can’t prepare for—the widow knows where the important papersare, but her fingers won’t work the lock.And when my mother died, and I stood up,I found for a moment that I couldn’t walk.So…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Patricia Hooper
Patricia Hooper‘s poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, The Atlantic, Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review and other magazines. A fifth book of poetry, Wild Persistence, was published in 2019 and awarded the Brockman Campbell Award for Poetry.