My mother moves his resting place each day from room to room. The ashes shift inside the wooden dove-tailed box, mute as sleeping birds. I want to lift the silence up and hold him, put him to my ear like that rare and convoluted shell he found near Cape Perpetua. (You will always find the […]
Alison Hurwitz
Alison’s recent publications include Global Poemic, Words and Whispers Journal, Tiferet Journal, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, A Book of Matches and Anti-Heroin Chic. Her work is forthcoming from Rust and Moth, The Shore, and Amethyst Review. Alison lives in North Carolina with her husband, sons and rescue dog. She is the host of a free monthly poetry reading, Well-Versed Words. See more at alisonhurwitz.com