The old landscape painting near our bed reveals hidden images as we lie awake most evenings, talking. Sideways shadows show a frail woman wearing a bonnet, child’s face tipped up, old-fashioned baby carriage, but mostly animals—sleeping bear, grinning raccoon, and what looks like a cartwheeling squirrel. The images keep shifting, so we can’t find the […]
Laura Grace Weldon
Laura Grace Weldon lives in a township too tiny for traffic lights where she works as a book editor, teaches writing workshops, and maxes out her library card. Laura served as Ohio’s 2019 Poet of the Year and is the author of four books.
Sourdough
Listening to NPR, I knead bread dough as I’ve done for decades working a starter named Vern into whole grain flours, salt, and water, dough alive under my hands on a kitchen counter hatched and scarred by decades of labor. My sleeve-slump sweater flour speckled. The kitchen warm. Ailsa Chang’s report, grim. I set […]