Ingrid Hughes was born in London in 1945. She grew up in Greece, Saigon, and Singapore, as well as the United States. Since she was twenty she has lived in New York, where she brought up two children and now teaches English to immigrants and native New Yorkers at the City University of New York. Her poems and stories have appeared in magazines like Lilith, West Branch, and the Massachusetts Review.

Ingrid Hughes

Ex-marriage

My husband- I haven’t learned to call him
my former husband, but I correct myself-
has made more progress putting our marriage behind
him than I have. He calls the bed
where we slept and made love,
where I nursed our children,
where we squabbled and dreamed ourselves
from youth to middle age,
our ex-bed.