I’ve been watching my long girls with their continuous hair—not what I’d been expecting. Their heads like flowers lolling on the thin stems of their necks. I did the best I could. I knew what it was to be a woman. A little boy, brash as my brothers, with a straw hat in the sketch […]
Susan Grimm
Susan Grimm has been published in Sugar House Review, The Cincinnati Review, South Dakota Review, and Field. She has had two chapbooks published. In 2004, BkMk Press published Lake Erie Blue, a full-length collection. In 2022, she received her third Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant.
Toast
We like it a little gritty, a food that stands up for itself, a food that will lie down for the butter or whatever else comes off your knife. This shallow altar and you the god to whom the offering. Used to be bread on a fork before GE got involved. Used to be something […]
As Early as I Can
Standing in front of the closet, their twin beds shaggy as two dogs. Dark wood and dark shoes. Working on abundance. They’ve assembled this room from air, each piece conceived and floated down, hooks for the things to come. The silence of the room allowing everything to be. The walls are papered with […]