Emily Kurc

There is an ocean's worth of water hiding on Mars

The woman on the news
says. I imagine
my children will take
summer vacations
there. Our feet in
red, rocky sand,
collecting space shells.
We can swim in the
waves, feeling the
hug and the tug of
seaweed leaves,
like a mother still
healing from her
mother.

Emily is the author of her two poetry collections, Where the Ivy Grows and Heartbreak Inferno. Her work has appeared in Yoga Journal, Moss Puppy Magazine, Breath & Shadow, Breaker Zine, and more.