Marina Hope Wilson is the author of the chapbook, Nighttime (Cooper Dillon Books, 2024). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as The Massachusetts Review, $, trampset, 2River, SWWIM Every Day, and American Poetry Review. Marina lives in San Francisco with her husband, stepdaughter, and two cats and makes her living as a speech-language therapist.

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Brand New Noise

By MARINA HOPE WILSON

—her footsteps / on cool white tile, walking down / the hallway.