To Marie Antoinette, from a Woman Who Mourned the Loss of Time, Too

Kelly R. Samuels is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She is the author of Words Some of Us Rarely Use (Unsolicited, 2019). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Salt Hill, The Carolina Quarterly, The Pinch, RHINO, Mom Egg Review, and The Massachusetts Review. She lives in the Upper Midwest.