for Heath Our flashlight crops the night. My brother and I climb the stream bed rocks and valley walls rise black as nothing. We scoop in the wet crotch, crawdads already startled by the way water cannot hide our sizes: some large and some small, some with exoskeletons and some with bones on the inside. […]
Alison Mandaville
Alison Mandaville grew up in Oregon, Turkey, Massachusetts, and Yemen. Her own poetry and translations from Azerbaijani have appeared in Terrain, Superstition Review, Magma, Seattle Review, World Literature Today, and Two Lines among other places. She has received cultural heritage grants from UNESCO and funding from the Open Society Institute for work with Azerbaijani women writers and artists. She splits her time between Seattle and Fresno where she teaches comics, writing and literary civics at California State University, Fresno.