by Kimberly M. Blaeser | Jan 6, 2015 | Magazine Article
Ricing moon when poling arms groan like autumn winds through white pine. Old rhythms find the hands bend and pound the rice, rice kernels falling falling onto wooden ribs canoe bottoms filling with memories— new mocassins dance the rice huffs of spirit wind lift and...
by Kimberly M. Blaeser | Jan 6, 2015 | Magazine Article
Why should it happen that the smallest zig-zagging black cricket one stick leg raised— a musician’s baton, holds and then releases the same song as my canoe paddle slicing into glass? Boundary Water’s evening lake still, mirroring like memory doubles you here and...
by Nickolas Butler | Dec 23, 2014 | Magazine Article
Drop my children off at another parent’s house To free up time to drive aimlessly, listening to FM radio, waiting for a song that I feel deeply Connected to, stopping in small towns to pump Gasoline, eager to make acquaintances with the Cashier, a woman who tells me...
by Jason Splichal | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
Anyone who has ever kept a secretKnows that letters cannot be burned in a bundle Even after the fire eats through the stringOr ribbonOr rubber bandThat binds themThe letters huddle together like childrenSo those at the core of the clutchRemain untouchedAs flames live...
by Richard Roe | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
The week her grandfather died, she recalleddancing with him at her sister’s wedding,the gardenia, his neatly parted white hair,a tango he likened to snow falling in calm wind. You were quick to learn, he told her, and sheremembers his hand against her shoulderblade,...
