For Katie Looking at the water, it’s quieter. You can hear the slow flap of ray wings, a beluga whale smoothing the water, the pulse of jellyfish, crown shy and boneless, like the friend I didn’t call, and then couldn’t, because she died. When I heard the news, I thought of how you and I […]
Caroline Picker
Caroline Picker (she/her) is a queer parent, poet, community organizer, and fundraiser for movements for collective liberation living in Southern Vermont on Abenaki land. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Subnivean, West Trade Review, Pensive, Ballast Journal, and Literary Mama, among other publications.