The Affair Fragments | Carrie Bennett

 Carrie Bennett is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow and author of biography of water (The Word Works) and several chapbooks: The Quiet Winter (Dancing Girl), Animals in Pretty Cages (Dancing Girl), and Expedition Notes (Letter [r] Press). Her second full-length collection, The Land Is a Painted Thing, was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection and will be published in 2016. Poems from her newest poetic project, Expedition Notes, have appeared or are forthcoming in Anchor, Horse Less Review, Pangyrus, Salamander, Small Po[r]tions, and Timber. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Maytag Fellow. She teaches writing at Boston University and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her family.      Before I knew you I knew your home before you lived there before I saw the pear tree’s bright leaves before they fell before my first winter before I was another person before before I took the picture of the pear tree’s