The child picks up a rock flings it into a creek that’s appeared out of nowhere after days of rain. She has a good arm; even small stones make a splash. What will she remember of me? Hide and seek? The thrill of finding me? She loves the wet stones, how they glitter. I don’t […]
Cindy Veach
Cindy Veach is the author of three poetry collections: Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press) a finalist for the Sally Albiso Award; Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal; and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must Read.” Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, Poet Lore, and Salamander among others. Recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and the Samuel Allen Washington Prize, Cindy is poetry co-editor of MER. www.cindyveach.com