It rains like an unclogged drain. No longer bound by matted hair and globs of conditioner, it revels in its trajectory toward the sea. It rains like tears in free fall, one of those ugly cries that contort the face. It rains like the fiddle in The Devil Went Down to Georgia, when Johnny shows […]
Arvilla Fee
Arvilla Fee has been married for 20 years and has five children. She teaches English Composition for Clark State College and is the poetry editor for the San Antonio Review. She has been published in numerous presses including Poetry Quarterly, Inwood Indiana, 50 Haikus, Contemporary Haibun Online, Drifting Sands Haibun, Bright Flash Literary Review, Stone Poetry Quarterly, Teach/Write, Acorn, Last Leaves Magazine & others. She also won the Rebecca Lard award for best poem in the Spring 2020 issue of Poetry Quarterly. What Arvilla loves most about writing is the ability to make people feel something. For Arvilla, poetry is never about rising to the heights of literary genius but about being in the trenches with ordinary people who will say, “She gets me.”