No caterpillar manifested in my fennel last season, and the milkweed failed to host a single Monarch. Is it my garden that fails? Will a hummingbird ever nest again outside my kitchen? Will she remember her babes? How do I measure the small losses that accrue, almost unnoticed? Will the day come when the sky […]
Linda Neal
Linda Neal is a psychotherapist, writing teacher, thirty-year kidney transplant patient and Pushcart nominee with an MFA from Pacific U. Her poems have been widely published (Calyx, Chiron Review, Gyroscope Review, Prairie Schooner, Tampa Review and elsewhere). She was featured in the on-line journal, Cultural Weekly in May of 2021. She lives and teaches poetry in Redondo Beach, CA. She two full collections, Dodge & Burn (Bambaz Press, 2014) and Not About Dinosaurs (Bambaz Press, 2020).