Valerie Marie Arvidson

Valerie Marie Arvidson is from the United States but currently is living in New Zealand pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at VUW. She has been published in Drunken Boat, Blunderbuss Magazine, The Seattle Review, Apt, Anomalous Press, and Hunger Mountain. Visit her website for more info:  http://valeriemariearvidson.com/.

Issue 7

To The Girl inside the Mount Victoria Tunnel, Wellington, New Zealand, 1931

You were the girl wearing the dress embroidered with honeybees and pōhutukawa blooms, those blood-red flowers whose stamens smash open upon the trees in time for Christmas.

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