how good to be swallowed up to be let in
or let out
blue expanse
spreads
the narrows
a maw
stretching ship-wide
the fence stands
to guard the ocean from the town (or is it vice versa)
lucia presses her face between cold bars and wills cargo ships
to come crashing in.
“For a very long time I tried to write a short story about Amelia Earhart‘s eleven-day stopover in Trepassey. I wanted to explore the effect her stay might have had…
And of course our setting is infusing the writing and imagery, in theme and topics and focus. An unusual period of rain and thunderstorms isn’t keeping us from our explorations and conversations and engagement with our exotic locale.
by Jenny Higgins Encyclopedias have been constant companions in my life. Before I could even read my parents took special care to stock our bookshelves with them: Funk and Wagnalls,…