I have touched the horizon of last things, where my father’s heart flat-lined, even though the respirator kept lying to us. I have watched a flood recede to the lowest corner of the meadow, seen the grass grow thickest and truest in that place. I have pressed river birch leaves between the pages […]
Janice L. Freytag
Janice lives in Souderton, PA. She began writing poetry in earnest after returning from a difficult experience in Bosnia. She is an enthusiastic, if not always successful, gardener. Her poetry has appeared in Saint Katherine Review, Relief, Windhover, Radix, One Art and others.