I drove you through the canyon waiting for a cattle drive to the spot where you’d be buried within a year. To be a stone or a small stand of delicate desert grass underfoot and underhoof not quite deep enough to be cool not like the river of God or the swimming hole I never […]
Rachel Mikita
Rachel Mikita (she/her) is a writer and poet from Blacklick, PA, and Flint, TX. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Her non-fiction work has been published in Love and Squalor and The Coal Hill Review. She was a finalist for The Plentitudes 2023 Prize in Poetry. Her poem “Stranger Daughter” was published in Columbia Journal as the winner of the 2022 Print Poetry Contest.