Still Life | Maria Nazos

Maria Nazos is the author of A Hymn That Meanders, (2011, Wising Up Press) and the chapbook "Still Life," (2016, dancing girl press). She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poetry, translations, and lyrical essays are published or forthcoming in The Mid-American Review, The North American Review, The Tampa Review, The Florida Review, The Southern Humanities Review, Subtropics, The Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. Currently, she is a Great Plains Fellow studying Creative Writing in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Creative Writing PhD program, where she teaches creative writing and poetry workshops. She can be found at www.marianazos.com.    For a Good Time, Call MorphineThe only number scrawled on these blank hospital walls belongs to your distant mistress.She’s the only one who staves off pain. Your wife is one tough lady, who still can’t force that bitch out the door. In every affair the otherwoman is