The children clustered in the castle, buoyed by keeping childhood’s minor secrets Maybe they did not know one another’s names, only the shapes of their bodies bounding and ungrave Parents grouped like dim tally marks on the outskirts of consciousness, held off by the castle’s completeness in itself When we consider the […]
Elizabeth Sylvia
Elizabeth Sylvia (she/her) lives with her family in Massachusetts, where she teaches high school English and coaches debate. She is the winner of the 2021 3 Mile Harbor Book Prize and her manuscript None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare’s Women will be published in 2022. Elizabeth’s work is upcoming or has recently appeared in Mom Egg Review, Slipstream, Crab Creek Review, Pleiades, and other wonderful journals. She is currently working on poems about gardening through the end of the world with her imaginary friend Marie Antoinette.