Chasing the shadows of leaves, rolling in real mud, the metaphorical dog doesn’t have a name and doesn’t need one. She knows more about the sky than any human alive: how it spins, a tall vase shaped and reshaped by vast hands, blue to light blue to midnight blue to pink orange gray red and […]
Katherine Riegel
Katherine Riegel’s lyric memoir, Our Bodies Are Mostly Water, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in May 2025. She is also the author of Love Songs from the End of the World (Main Street Rag), the chapbook Letters to Colin Firth (Sundress), and two more books of poetry. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Catamaran, Orion, SWWIM, and elsewhere. She is managing editor of Sweet Lit and teaches online classes in poetry and cnf. Find her at katherineriegel.com.
Time is Not Real, but Scientists Say It Makes No Difference to Us
My mother is still alive. My mother is having a seizure and I am six. She falls to the ground and adults push-pull me away so I cannot see. My mother is dying of pancreatic cancer. My mother is steering the canoe from the stern, her paddle nearly silent as we glide past swans, giant […]