Marissa Martin/Mary McDonald
Marissa Martin
Year of study: 3rd Major: BFA, Honors Specialization Studio Arts Graduating: Incomplete Moved from Oakville to study in Visual Arts, Western University. |
"Beyond"
“Susan Amantha Cottonwood was a little girl who was always good --
When the sun shone.” I begged my father for this story every night It sparkled and shrieked wool afghan into fantasy. This is a story creature, repeated, repeated. Psammead, sand fairy, sphinx, dragon-- words travel with us (for life) become our yarns sparkling rough dull rich with impossibility. Unravelled, revealed textured, re-texted. Threads read fabric fabricated form girls. Inform girls to say please to please to smile. You are welcome, here. Psammead, sand fairy, dragon, sphinx -- Stay with me this night. I want to look in your eyes know your stories that take me beyond childhood. Should we fly, or leap or slither? But. rewind, remix, repeat, repeat. Fabricate threaded revelations. Please inform your Welcome wider. I will fly and leap and slither, then. Quote from Susan and the Rain by Madye Lee Chastain (pg. 145) Whitman Publishing included Susan and the Rain and Nellie in its 1944 collection, The Big Big Story Book. (republished 1965)
Mary McDonald is a writer who has settled in the London community, after living in West Africa, Indonesia, and Toronto. Mary is a graduate student of the Master’s of Educational Technology program of UBC. She has been previously published in The New Quarterly and her play, “13 inches of closet space” will be given a public reading in April.
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