There is no pocket-size book like my mother’s Golden Field Guide of North American Birds. I can’t trace her pencil marks—her penmanship precise, calculated capital loops like her mother’s. 1983, Boulder Woods neatly placed, cornered, a sighting fine singers; nesting in crotches of shrubs. My guide, a collection of notes, gathered from letters, penned in […]
Rebecca Beardsall
Rebecca Beardsall, MA, MFA, works at Western Washington University. She is the prose editor at Psaltery & Lyre, and her poetry and essays have appeared in Origyns, SWIMM, and West Texas Review, among others. Find her at: rebeccabeardsall.com.