I need to swim in God like a river— to drown. I want to be a catfish feeding on holy muck at the bottom of the lake that silvers God’s ankles around the white throne. Sixty-six books and prayer is not enough. I want to swing between God’s arms, a child between her parents flying […]
Emma Galloway Stephens
Emma Galloway Stephens is a neurodivergent poet and professor from the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. Her poems have appeared in The Windhover, The Nature of Things, Ekstasis Magazine, and two anthologies. She dreams of earning her PhD in gothic literature and then disappearing into the Blue Ridge Mountains.