I Shut My Eyes There is a darkness, like a blindfold, or a curtain of fog— all colors muted to…
Stranded In Alaska, 1889 --with a nod to Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise by Nancy Anderson and Linda Ferber At…
In the Dammed Body This stagnant water. I watch as a green shroud spreads across the surface. Still, I cannot…
Winter Solstice i. I am better blind my grandmother declares, squints to seal off what shortened light remains of autumn,…
shadow correspondence the light cuts a white circle from the poem as one boy sleeps nearby I read by flashlight…
Taking Stock There -- a tiny you in your best Sunday dress standing before Mama’s bright orange beds of unrestrained…
The Tuesday Crew Before we can begin, we must coddle the old truck, tighten down the terminal clamps, then jump…
Sweat Friday night I entered a dark corridor rode to the upper floors with men who filled the stainless elevator…
Jessica Billey is an Oregon artist working primarily in woodcut printmaking and drawing. Her print work features intricately carved closeups…
Sandra Alcosser has published seven books of poetry, including A Fish to Feed All Hunger and Except by Nature, which have been selected for the…