after Franny Choi In sitting shiva we shone, we swam, we sang silence into silver, wove wave, warren, wilderness of loss, loaming gardens of grief, in grieving gave grace, gave grave, gave grove, forested faith, fawned, fasted, faded, not five but ten, ten men, meaning men, meaning matter, meaning count, […]
Elya Braden
Elya Braden is a writer and mixed-media artist living in Ventura County, CA, and is an editor for Gyroscope Review. She is the author of the chapbooks, Open The Fist (2020) and The Sight of Invisible Longing (2023). Her work has been published in Anti-Heroin Chic, Burningword Literary Journal, Rattle Poets Respond, Sequestrum, Sheila-Na-Gig Online, The Louisville Review and elsewhere. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets. www.elyabraden.com.