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 […]
Christine Potter
Christine Potter lives in a very old house in New York’s Hudson River Valley. Her poetry has appeared in Rattle, Sweet, Mobius, Eclectica, Kestrel, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Third Wednesday, and was featured on ABC Radio News. She has poetry forthcoming in The Midwest Quarterly and The Rappahannock Review. Her time-traveling young adult series, The Bean Books, is published by Evernight Teen, and her most recent collection of poems, Unforgetting, is on Kelsay Books.