Of course, I’d choose a bird. Smitten by feathers. Forgetting how easily birds break against the windows. Limp and ruined. I had my first dream of flying when I was fifty-eight. I’m not sure what that says about me. My dream life is replete with houses of many rooms, but always grounded, even subterranean. I […]
Erin Coughlin Hollowell
Erin Coughlin Hollowell’s poetry collections Pause, Traveler, and Every Atom, are published by Boreal Books. Her collection Corvus and Crater was published by Salmon Poetry in 2023. She is most recently published in Poetry Ireland Review, Orion Magazine, Terrain.org, and Rust + Moth. She lives in Alaska, where she directs Storyknife, a women writers’ retreat, and the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference.