In honor of April’s National Poetry Month, damselfly press presents our first poetry issue. We invite you to kick off spring with great writing by talented women. We are honored to offer you an issue of beauty and wonder that contains some of the best poems we’ve had the pleasure of publishing. The poems speak […]

RAPUNZEL
She married the one back home instead
the son of a farmer
heir to a kingdom of tobacco and cotton
a man with broad shoulders and few words
and a farmhouse embedded like a stone in the flat endless fields.
She binds her hair now
safe from the grasp of tiller and plow
a heavy rope coiled at the base of her […]