With each passing month, time seems to pick up speed. We spend much of autumn preparing for the coming winter. We begin to burrow, yet often don’t get the chance to spend an afternoon reading. So we thank you for carving out your time to read through our ninth issue, which is packed with thought […]

The Geese

Still, the sun contributes its honey
and a large raindrop magnifies the thin branch,
here, where I am, and where my mother,
many miles away in her kitchen,
is quietly aware of each

as they pass, over flat land and long grasses,
the lone, strong, open-branched tree,
and the rain that […]

Six Strands of Separation
I sit in the hair salon, facing myself in the mirror, screaming with laughter. I am with my hairdresser, Lexie, and we’re laughing about something frightening that could have happened to me but didn’t. I laugh at both inappropriate and appropriate times. I laugh when I’m describing things that scared me, hurt […]

The New Normal
Someone has tried to brighten up the room with paper cutouts of watermelons and beach balls. But decorations cannot compete with medical monitors or pods of plexiglass isolettes and tiny metal cribs. I spy my baby, born not two hours ago, the newest resident of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Nursery Five.
A […]