“The Vanishing” by Marisa Handler
“The Vanishing” by Maris Handler was the recipient of the 2017 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize and published in issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal, available here. Marisa Handler is a writer, singer-songwriter, teacher, and coach. She is the author of the memoir Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist, which won a Nautilus Gold Award for