Boyce Thompson Arboretum, AZ Palo verde trees flower in clouds of yellow, but my father isn’t looking up. He’s 85 and dying of cancer, so he bends to read the bronze names transforming arbor benches from places of rest to memento mori. The otherworldly spikes of boojum tower beneath the sky’s blue arch; a Palmer’s […]
Dana Sonnenschein
Dana Sonnenschein teaches at Southern Connecticut State University. Her publications include Corvus, No Angels but These, Natural Forms, and Bear Country. Recent work appears in The Ekphrastic Review, Permafrost, Feminist Studies, Poppy Road Review, and Terrain.org’s Dear America anthology. Find her @lone_wolf_poet on Twitter, dana.sonnenschein, on Instagram, and www.facebook.com/Dana-Sonnenschein-104761453404.