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DeAnna Beachley
DeAnna Beachley is a bird watcher, hiker, historian, award-winning poet, and essayist. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Red Rock Review, Sandstone & Silver, Thimble, The Ekphrastic Review Challenge, Slant, Blue Earth Review, Gyroscope, Liminal.Spaces, Anatomy of an Essay, and Awakenings: Stories of Body and Consciousness. Her debut chapbook, The Long View, is forthcoming by Kelsay Publishing.
Pleasure
is so hard to remember. It goes like the pinfeathers that drop from the geese roosting all day around the hot springs. Or like the regurgitated owl pellets that litter the ground under the tree where the great horned owlhas roosted since six twenty-two this morning. Cast off the plant matter, bones, fur, feathers, bills, […]