Isabella DeSendi, a finalist in Narrative’s Ninth Annual Poetry Contest, is a Cuban Italian poet, awarded a teaching-artist residence through New York City’s Community-Word Project. She is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, where she taught creative writing.

America’s First Female Muslim Judge Found Floating in a River

by Isabella DeSendi

  for Sheila Abdus-Salaam

In April we will find her body.
It is March. New York is gray, between
seasons like a heart undecided
between new love and loss.

People on couch
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