Intro: In A Map of Every Undoing, Alicia Elkort skillfully navigates the world of childhood trauma toward healing with extraordinary skill and vulnerability. A former contributor, Elkort was kind enough…
Intro: In her new collection, Rooted and Winged, Luanne Castle uses evocative imagery to explore that which grounds us and that which lifts us up. Her potent descriptions of the…
and I’m juicing lemons. Hands raw from the nibble of citric acid, wrist aching from the press and twist. Outside, the sun sets at 4:15. Dark presses against the house,…
There’s a boy standing in the lightat the end of the forest, some newfound splinter of radiancedislodging the humdrum winter, spilling the freshness of summeronto the decaying sheets, the mercurial…
Dear Blue Prince, The sad news of your death reached me here inevitably, belatedly, to say the least. Mareia somehow already knew. She’d always known. For years I wept. I…
for Aschenputtel I started falling apart today, starting with my pinkie, which fell down the drainas I brushed my teeth. I left my ear on the couchwhere I tied my shoes, left my…
Bring me the eyelash of a beautiful baby.Sprinkle it with dewdrops from the petal of a spider lily.Powder it with ashes from the remains of a love lettersent from a…
Be fey. Be extra. Get your M.A.from the invisible school. Rescue a false cat for effect. Hag up. Be the best at mathamong your sisters. Study your whole lifeto fail this epic.…
Beloved— your touch is on my mind again like pins under my fingernails. I hope the figure you only see out of the corner of your eye is shaped like…
what is inside you, toad what witness your ancient eyes did she carry you in her pocket did her fingers caress the bulbs and craters of your skull did…
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