Mary Helen Callier is currently an instructor and doctoral student in the English and Literary Arts department at the University of Denver, where she serves as one of the poetry editors for the Denver Quarterly. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Bennington Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, When the Horses, was the winner of the 2023 Alice James Editor's Choice.

POETRY

Night-Blooms, Persephone

By MARY HELEN CALLIER

I dive into the water, / and the water bends behind me.