Sometimes a paper boat goes down river carried by small winds because rivers love innocence, pink clouds, and yellow mountains because it is impossible, then, to speak of debt and hunger, because the trees along the riverbank understand the tricks of life and wish that nothing made of paper, nothing vulnerable will sink on this […]
Eva Skrande
Eva Skrande’s third book, The Boat that Brought Sadness into the World, is forthcoming in June from Finishing Line Press. Her publications include My Mother’s Cuba (River City Publishing Poetry Series) and Bone Argot (Spuyten Duyvil). Her poems have appeared in Agni, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, Thimble, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere. In her current transfiguration, she teaches for Writers in the Schools and tutors at Houston Community College.
THE EARTH
When the earth cries, loosen its belt. Offer it a chair in your living room. Offer it some freshly baked bread, an ottoman to put its legs up. Give it a pillow that it may recline comfortably. It will cry about wars, lost birds, and other of the world’s troubles. Let it put its bundles […]