Poetry
From Issue V (2020)Pond in the Woods (1922)
by CLAIR DUNLAP
after Georgia O’Keeffe
in another world, i hold your small hand and we walk to the river
which is clearbrown against our bare feet.
people have thus far preserved everything the way the earth wished we would,
and so the salmon are running.
we haven’t travelled to the concrete locks to watch the fish
and there is no tube taxiing them up what people (in the worse world where
i’m sorry i’m sorry that is the one i’m writing from)
put in their way.
the clearbrown stream is full of them rifling home and you, in a small voice
which i grew inside of me, name their cycle—
egg, alevin, fry, smolt, migration to sea, migration to spawn,
death—
we didn’t make a world without it, yet,
and the trees are grateful.
Werifesteria | EMMA GOLDGAR
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 in., 2020
Clair Dunlap
Clair Dunlap grew up just outside Seattle, WA, and is the author of In the Plum Dark Belly. Her work has appeared in Glass, Hobart, and elsewhere. She lives in the Midwest.
Emma Goldgar
A self-taught painter from Salt Lake City, Emma Goldgar uses realistic, surrealistic, and conceptual styles to capture the human form and transpose it to a dreamy, natural environment, sparking the wonder and wistfulness of childhood.