Pregnant with you, touring the CICU, I tilted earthward, and the nurses rose above me like cold lifting waves. Blind to the row of screens singing about children in lilting waves, half-hearted children in wire and tube. In half-light through drawn blinds, they lay like gods, in nests of machine, hearts stitched with […]
Renee Emerson
Renee Emerson is the author of the poetry collections Keeping Me Still (Winter Goose Publishing 2014), Threshing Floor (Jacar Press 2016), and Church Ladies (Fernwood Press, forthcoming 2022). She is also the author of the chapbook The Commonplace Misfortunes of Everyday Plants (Belle Point Press, forthcoming). She lives in the Midwest with her husband and children.
Dorothy Sayers, Mystery Writer
In the beginning, there was a loaded tree, two bodies, romantic intrigue and a God. Obedience is the catalyst. Satan is the villain, but we are the who dunnit, playing like orphan children in a garden. It is true that all good stories involve orphans, the early abandoned. We love their lack of loneliness, their […]