Thanks for this, Nausheen, and congrats to Julie for Poetry Daily picking up on your essay. And kudos too, Julie, for bringing attention to the wonderful poet Maxine Cassin, about whom I otherwise would know nothing. These hidden treasures!
Thank you for noticing and posting this, Nausheen. Maxine was a character--some day, without the 700-word limit, I will write the full version! Her poems are wonderful and deserve to be read much more widely.