Somebody always needs to explain to you all starlight is dead—often a man who also must point out each constellation, intoning all their names: Orion, Aquarius, Taurus the bull. You know he’s not exactly correct, but that sequin pleasing you on the horizon? Time, the speed of light…it could be. So you stand in a […]
Christine Potter
Christine Potter is the poetry editor of Eclectica Magazine. Her poems have been curated by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, Grain, The McNeese Review, and After Happy Hour. Her time traveling novels for young adults, The Bean Books, are on Evernight Teen, and her latest collection of poems, Unforgetting, is published by Kelsay Books. Christine lives in the Hudson River Valley with a very pretty cat and a patient husband.
Home Renovation Show
Stained wallpaper from the 1930’s—faded green and coral, lush with blowzy roses and garlands—gets a good laugh before it’s smashed into dust, fuzz-tone guitars wailing. Someone jumps feet-first right through it. The oak trim someone else’s mom teetered on an old stool to lemon oil is too much wood. Paint it all white. Tear out […]