Erin Slomski-Pritz
lineage
if
we
are light
then we must
travel by way of
the line, return to the opaque
objects, offer them our apologies, make distant
encounters feel ordinary as evening and the conifer’s outline in the grass.
if we are shadows, we must live by small desires,
in faded garments, passed between
bodies, born out of
circumstance.
here to
be
seen.
Back to Issue XIV…
Lynne Ellis writes in pen. Their words appear in Poetry Northwest, The Seventh Wave, the North American Review, the Missouri Review, Bracken, and many other beloved journals and anthologies. Winner of the Washburn Prize, the Perkoff Prize, and the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, she believes every poem is a collaboration. Read their digital chapbook, "Future Sketchbook," online at Harbor Review. Ellis holds a Certificate in Editing from the University of Washington, serves as a poetry reader at Crab Creek Review, and is Publishing Editor of Tulipwood Books, a developmental-editing press. She wants to work with you.
