My mother is still alive. My mother is having a seizure and I am six. She falls to the ground and adults push-pull me away so I cannot see. My mother is dying of pancreatic cancer. My mother is steering the canoe from the stern, her paddle nearly silent as we glide past swans, giant […]
Katherine Riegel
Katherine Riegel is the author of Love Songs from the End of the World, the chapbook Letters to Colin Firth, and two more books of poetry. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Offing, Poets.org, and elsewhere. She is managing editor of Sweet Lit. Find her at katherineriegel.com.