How powerful is
a shoreline that produces its own weather.
Oblivious when it evaporates
like a woman who has freed herself
and is destroyed to make way
for another.
—
Maggie Frank-Hsu is a writer and book coach who self-published her first nonfiction book, Be About Something, in 2020. Her writing has also appeared in Publishers Weekly, smithsonianmag.com, and in her own weekly newsletter on writing. Instagram: @maggiefrankhsu
Photography by: Annie Spratt
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