Nadine Hitchiner

When this February shall find me

it'll be halfway through.
Monologue for monologue, I'd been practising how to love.
Now, I walk through the young year, without noticing its peers—
without knowing who the days belong to.
When February finds me, it is already halfway through—
I’d remember our first kiss—how when he held me,
he was listening in.

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Nadine Hitchiner is a German poet and author of Practising Ascending (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2023 ) and the chapbook, Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 Best of the Net Finalist. Her work has appeared in The Citron Review, Prose Online, Milk Press and others.