Alexandra Crivici

PRAYING

May your tongue
be infinite

in the many apologies
it learns to utter. May

you unlearn the habit 
of biting down, seething, 

growling towards 
the foreign terrain you see

in the mirror.

Alexandra Crivici earned her MA from The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, where her work was featured in both The Bread Loaf Journal and the Middlebury Centennial Journal. Alexandra has been a member of the Poetry Society of Vermont since 2017 and her poem “Due Date” won first prize in the 2021 Spring Contest, which will be featured in the next edition of The Mountain Troubadour. Alexandra lives in Vermont with her husband, dog, and newborn son, where she is an avid skier, hiker, and overall Green State enthusiast.