Before the summer of 2019, you could shout your phone number from across the room at me and I could recite it backwards to you six months later. Even if I never called you, which I wouldn’t because, let’s be honest, it shows just a tad too much sincerity to actually call someone these days. […]
Megan Wildhood
Megan Wildhood is a writer, editor and writing coach who helps her readers feel seen in her monthly newsletter, poetry chapbook Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017), her full-length poetry collection Bowed As If Laden With Snow (Cornerstone Press, May 2023) as well as Mad in America, The Sun and elsewhere. You can learn more about her writing, working with her and her mental-health and research newsletter at meganwildhood.com.
I wish human destruction was like
the exuberantly rotting nurse logs all along the trail of the last hike I took my antsy rescue dogs on before the season closed. I left my little girls with their fevers at their father’s. I packed for what I knew. I skirt a face-down river, flail as the marionettier of my pack, dread that […]