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"Something Good" by Mary Meriam I waltz with Julie Andrews in her blue desire dress one summer night, and we are floating from the castle garden through the edelweiss and falling dreamily in love in the gazebo. "Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever will," she sings to me alone, while silky darkness hums along in harmony with lovely things. For here you are, you're standing there, in truth you're loving me and touching me with your soft womanhood. So somewhere in my youth inside of Julie's sound of music, pure confusion slowly melts, and any doubt dissolves as Julie guides my coming out. About the Author 
Mary Meriam is a lesbian poet with a BA from Bennington College and an MFA from Columbia University. Mary's first book of poems, The Countess of Flatbroke (afterword by Lillian Faderman) was published in 2006 by Modern Metrics Press and received an award from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Mary's poems and essays have been published in Literary Imagination, Light Quarterly, and Sinister Wisdom, among others.
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Bed of Roses Love Sonnet Contest Winner
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