My road quirks and climbs, its trees, one heavy at the hips, split in the middle. A neighbor’s home painted green and plum, like a bruise. Peaches opens the door to let the dog out but never leaves the house […]
Tina Barry
Tina Barry is the author of Beautiful Raft and Mall Flower (Big Table Publishing 2019 and 2016). Her writing can be found in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Thimble, Rattle, Verse Daily, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, The Best Small Fictions 2020 (spotlighted story) and 2016, trampset, The American Poetry Journal, A-Minor, Gyroscope Review, and elsewhere. Tina’s third collection I Tell Henrietta, will be published by Aim Higher Press, Inc. She has several Pushcart Prize nominations as well as Best of the Net and Best Microfiction Nods. Tina is a teaching artist at The Poetry Barn and Writers.com.
Henrietta
I tell Henrietta about my mother’s heartbeat and how I heard it in her womb. I think I’m lying, but as I speak, I feel it in my own chest, the bongBong of it, wavery through the saline sac. My hand, a tiny shimmer of ghost beside my cheek. I hear my mother first, then feel […]