Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner is a poet, teacher, and editor from rural upstate New York. Her recent poems have appeared in The New Yorker, POETRY, and Ploughshares, and she serves as a Senior Editor at The Yale Review. Previously, Maggie was a Stadler Fellow in Poetry at Bucknell University and an Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Poetry at Colgate University. Source
Couplets
I became myself.
I became myself.
No, I always was myself.
There’s no such person as myself.
I wouldn’t have to turn my eye
inward, I thought, if I could train my eye
on him—the one I loved.
But I was wrong. My eye loved
everything it fell upon.
And then one day it fell upon
a mirror. And he was nowhere
in the mirror. And she was everywhere.
Published:
2023
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2024
Themes:
Identity
Love & Relationships
Literary Devices:
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
Couplets
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
Epistrophe
the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
Repetition
a recurrence of the same word or phrase two or more times