She tosses the piece back in the pile looking annoyed, grabs another and tries again, almost but not good enough, although both have blue sky and a bit of what looks like a palm tree but not a perfect fit despite her eager impatience she chews on her pigtails and picks another piece And […]
Claire Scott
Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
Building a Bridge to My Mother
Perhaps a simple beam bridge made of wood, one you might see while walking in the country, easing you over a shallow creek. But the creek isn’t so shallow is it Mother, it is swirling with rapids of slaps and lies and broken promises, roiling eddies of deceit. Maybe a suspension bridge more than a […]