Shipping crates for houses, some stamped Fragile. Handle with Care. Others tattooed with numbers, a red arrow pointing to a gap in the roof. At night, starlight for lamps, sprinkled like salt over the plain. There, a mother cooks in the moment, wishing for chimneys, a sky full of smoke, a pan to fry fish—her […]
Joanne Monte
Joanne Monte is the author of “The Blue Light of Dawn,” which received the Bordighera Book Award. In addition to receiving a Pushcart nomination, she is the recipient of numerous awards, namely Sixfold, the Jack Grapes Poetry Award, Princemere Poetry Award, the New Millennium Writings Award, and Sheila-Na-gig.