Ocean Ancient and Evolving
lost in waves the part of me that is sand
The World Beneath
Image: “All of Us” by Lou Storey. “The World Beneath” was written by Devon Balwit for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, April 2023, and selected as the Editor’s Choice. (PDF / JPG)
Rebuke the Ghosts
My grandmother’s soap opera was set in Manchu
times, when men with fierce eyeliner skirmished
with swords while, indoors, porcelain-pale women
spoke tremulous vows.
Improvident
That dream, a small cottage
with windows facing the Pacific and
—wait for it—
priced within reason.
On Seeing My Home Move Backward Through Geological Time
Of course I picture the actual house, my little peaked roof
riding the plate southward back through Neocene, Cretaceous,
beachfront, then sub-marine, and passing through the dinosaurs
so fast—