Princess Eyes

At three and half you tell me you don’t like your eyes. Too brown. Not blue. Not enough like a…

As I listened to a guitar solo from the hypnotic opening measures of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” the podcast narrator unfurled…

In Megan Merchant’s fourth collection of poetry, Before the Fevered Snow, the poet holds us close through experiences of loss, marriage, and…

My daughter wakes up with a cry, never getting out of bed but always waiting for me to come in,…

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