Coffee Hour, 1965

November 1, 2025

By Sara Clancy

Photo by Barbro Bergfeldt

The ladies are staying far too long 
after First Day School. We look for our 
aunts among support hose and sensible 
shoes and find them talking in low tones 
by a silver tray of danish pastries 
that aren’t meant for us.

November 2025

Fiction

Sara Clancy

Sara Clancy is a Philadelphia transplant to the desert Southwest and a former member of Abington (Pa.) Meeting. Her chapbook, Ghost Logic, won the 2017 Turtle Island Quarterly Editors Choice Award and her poems have been widely published.

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