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Heather Frankland
Heather Frankland holds a MPH and a MFA from NMSU. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Peru and Panama. She has two chapbooks published: The Wanderer in Cacti Fur Collective by Grandma Moses Press and Midwest Musings by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry book, Blood Mangos, was a finalist for the Steel Toe Book 2025 Book Award. Her poetry and prose have been published in Watershed Review, Sweet Lit, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, and others. From Indiana, she lives in Silver City, NM, teaches at WNMU, and served as the local poet laureate.
Off the Island: Seeking a Brief Escape in 2021
I’ve been stuck in the house like a word stuck in the mouth. Months of the pandemic, and I need to get out, be somewhere else than my four walls feeling lonely. I’ve been good so far. I hope no one judges me. My car stuck in the drive way; its windows dusty, its tires […]
Muted Roots
Do snapdragons winter well? Their bright trumpet mouths transform to thin paper and sacks of seeds that may or may not reproduce. Their green leaves wither a dull-green-brown. I want them to climb tall, to catch the sunlight and bring it back down. Do apricot saplings winter well? The one I planted turned brown; it […]