Nancy Burke, the author of the novels Undergrowth and The Box (2025), is also a poet, songwriter, psychoanalyst, and psychotherapy activist. She received her PhD from the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago and her psychoanalytic certification from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. She maintains a private practice of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and consultation in Evanston, Illinois.

Mars

by Nancy Burke
We’re the warlike ones, not you.
In you we read our future, what


life is left when life dries up.
We study, through our telescopes,
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