Color of quick flame and creeping destruction. Color of arched monarch wings under a bright flare of bird throat flashing through green leaves as color curls around a rim of sky when the closest star breaks. Tiger stripe blazing as forests’ roots thrust into loam lumping along underfoot. The salamander eating its own sloughed skin […]
Carrie Purcell Kahler
Carrie Purcell Kahler’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Apogee, Bellevue Literary Review, Image, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Postcard Poems and Prose, District Lit, HAD, and others. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington and lives in Seattle with her cat.