Morgan Hamill

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Morgan Hamill

I hope this email finds you doing well but it doesn’t. It finds you hunched over your phone on the train under the whitish-yellow light with one foot lodged against the foot of the man next to you who is wearing a Patriot’s hat and an Eagles jacket and you think that doesn’t make sense but then

again a lot of things don’t, like this email that found you even after you left your desk, for this woman angry that you’ve avoided her all week because we can’t tell her that she has early stage mild cognitive impairment until the neuropsychologist gives us the release forms which is just a long-winded way of saying you’re about to play God with someone’s life, so you have to keep telling her I’m sorry, I

don’t know what’s taking so long but you do.

Morgan Hamill is a disabled poet and a first-year MA/PhD student in English Literature, with a focus in Critical Disability Studies, at Penn State-University Park, where she has been awarded a McCourtney Family Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. In 2019, she was a poetry semi-finalist in Nimrod's Francine Ringold Awards for Emerging Writers. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, The Journal, and The Southern Review.