The comfort of smolder tendrils over red flesh— a salmon, deboned and fileted and arranged atop a steel rack, gradually, ardently, inflames. The poet chooses alder wood fresh from the edge of Alsop Pond, the one the tree’s been sucking as it spills its yellow catkins into April’s rain. Cut into kindling, the timber bleeds […]
D. Walsh Gilbert
D. Walsh Gilbert (she/her) lives in Farmington, Connecticut on a former sheep farm at the foot of the Talcott Mountain near the watershed of the Farmington River, previously the homelands of the Tunxis and Sukiaugk peoples and near the oldest site of human occupation in Connecticut dating back 12,500 years. She is the author of six books of poetry, serves on the board of the Riverwood Poetry Series, and as co-editor of Connecticut River Review.
Mary’s New Era
“That’s life, isn’t it? Getting past the unexpected, and perhaps learning from it.” —The Dowager Countess, Downton Abbey Everyone got what they wanted, Mary notes […]