Melanie Hubbard’s publications include We Have With Us Your Sky (Subito, 2012) and Gilbi Winco Swags (Cannibal, 2008). She has written on Emily Dickinson’s linguistic-philosophical education and has most recently taught at New College of Florida. These illuminated pages are from her current work-in-progress, a treatment of the 1924 book, Auto-Suggestion for Mothers. Find more poems from this project at Talisman.