Catherine Abbey Hodges, a finalist in Narrative’s Eleventh Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of Instead of Sadness, winner of the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize; Raft of Days; and In a Rind of Light (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2020). She teaches English at Porterville College in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

None of Us Were Dying Then

by Catherine Abbey Hodges

  For Sgt. Donald Shue and my mother, in memoriam

You were reading The Inner Game
of Tennis.
Nixon was looking
straight into the camera.

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