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The Solace of Artemis
by Paula Meehan
read By Olivia Hollander

[excerpt]

I read that every polar bear alive has mitochondrial DNA
from a common mother, an Irish brown bear who once
roved out across the last ice age, and I am comforted.

It has been a long hot morning with the children of the machine,
their talk of memory, of buying it, of buying it cheap, but I,
memory keeper by trade, scan time coded in the golden hive mind
of eternity…./


Irish poet and playwright Paula Meehan's poem “The Solace of Artemis” was first published in the Notre Dame Review in the fall of 2012.