In the middle of a lazy afternoon my eyelids droop— paper shades against the light— patterns that precede sleep cast nets inside my eyelids: electric blue, pulsing violet-red. Breath eases, evens, feet cease twitching & that myotonic jerk that often snaps me alert, stills. Telephones jangle, ballerinas whirl & leap, TVs blast commercials, salesmen sell […]
Ann Howells
Ann Howells edited Illya’s Honey for eighteen years. Recent books: So Long As We Speak Their Names (Kelsay Books, 2019) and Painting the Pinwheel Sky (Assure Press, 2020). Chapbooks Black Crow in Flight and Softly Beating Wings were published through contests. Her work appears in many small press and university journals.