Ordinary Sophie by Karen Heuler
…to be special is special. The special want something specific. I find wanting to be repulsive; the neediness drags people down, puts weights on their legs; they can’t get free…
Earth’s Lullaby, or To the Child Now Grown by Kathleen McCoy
…born, not yet free to feel the weight of spirit encased in tingling and hunger, nodded, pounded, insisted it was your turn to ride the plains and till the soil…
Burst Forth and Bloom
…invitation to submit and receive is free. With no limit to its future possibilities, we are publishing the Confluence of Women’s Voices anthology – section by section – in each…
Jaguar Foretells His Own Extinction by Suzette Bishop
…Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Jellyfish Whispers, Free State Review, New Texas, Borderlands, Concho River Review, Journal of Texas Women Writers, Aries, and in the anthologies The…
At the Interface by Renée E. D’Aoust
…my bark flamed free, my uterus gone, my mother gone, my brother gone. Why would a fire matter now, when that family has flamed out already? My dachshund wants to…