“The Green Season,” by Jennifer Beebe
The coroner asked if she drank, her throat swollen to closing, front and back embracing the shape perhaps of a mouth around a screw-top bottle, or lips sucking juice from a too ripe pear. I could have told him late afternoon worked best for her, lips to rim, her arm from the window, yardarm, her armistice with the day, the orange of her nails a slow tick of sins along the window frame. I could have told him we anchor ourselves by...
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Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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