We often think of winter as a time of darkness. Yet this season brings stillness and nourishing quiet. Our tenth issue of damselfly press contains fortifying work by writers reminding us even in the depth of winter, spring is waking.
Our eleventh issue will be available April 15th, 2010. If you’d like to submit, please visit […]

December Wind
Last night I dreamt I was bleeding,
two cold gushes down my thigh.
I woke up thinking, yes, winter is coming—
winter and my son.
But tonight it’s only wind
hissing something awful
and I see my grandmother
before she died, gray lips open,
the softest moan filling the room
then ending
and I can’t believe the wind is coming
from the earth I have […]

Twenty Minutes
“Where do you suppose Granny is now?” Ben asks. And because this is my logical husband, I know he is wondering where the casket is that we left above ground at the committal service, and not something more metaphysical.
Ben, his sister Elizabeth and I stop by the cemetery before leaving for the airport […]