One should always have a secret life. Great Aunt Edna always wore her silvery hair tight in a bun— at night she unpinned, and the glistening waves came crashing to her waist. I liked to watch “prim and put-together” transform to little mermaid, sitting at the gilded vanity, sliding her tortoise shell comb through the […]
Ann Weil
Ann Weil is the author of Lifecycle of a Beautiful Woman (Yellow Arrow Publishing, 2023) and Blue Dog Road Trip (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, October 2024). Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and appears in Pedestal Magazine, DMQ Review, Maudlin House, 3Elements Review, Okay Donkey, SWWIM Every Day, The Shore, Thimble Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. She earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor, MI, and Key West, FL.
Never Truly
She’s not an oracle, simply my therapist. I bring my basket brimming to her now— can you believe it— now only once every two or three moons, an offering of fears laid at her feet. She peels back the dark cloth, takes in the writhing serpents, notes their diminishment in size and power. Only garden […]
Insomniac’s Lament
I have become too familiar with the moon,the man thinks, as he studies her 2 a.m. ensemble. The veil of violet is a provocative touchand those sidelong glances through its hazy lace stir feelings he had buried deep. Her figure O body makes him want to kiss her, if only his reach were longer. Size […]