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Poetry · Volume 9, Number 1

The Conservation of Memory

Bethany Reid

A poem reflecting on the physics of conservation as a metaphor for how memory and grief hold onto what is lost.

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Bethany Reid

Bethany Reid’s poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications from small presses and in literary journals, including CALYX Journal , Santa Clara Review , CAIRN , Hayden’s Ferry Review , New England Quarterly, and Studies in the Novel . She is also the author of a chapbook, The Coyotes and My Mom (Bellowing Ark Press, 1990), and is coauthor with Thomas M. Gaskin of Everett and Snohomish County (Wyndham Press, 2005).