warmed a nest
in my balmy palm
placed it back
in its gingko tree
turned aside & took rest for a while
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Maw Shein Win’s full-length poetry collection Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn) is forthcoming in Fall 2024. Her second full-length poetry collection is Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020). She is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA. She teaches poetry in the MFA Program at the University of San Francisco. Along with Dawn Angelicca Barcelona and Mary Volmer, she is a co-founder of Maker, Mentor, Muse, a new literary community. mawsheinwin.com
