Joannie Stangeland – Things I Forgot about Love

Things I Forgot about Love In this boat, we each have an oar. How not to row in circles. It isn’t the waves. We can ride the waves. How gently we can rock, the shoreline thinning. It isn’t only the green ocean, the fever, heart wingful. It isn’t about a map, but that map might […]

Joannie Stangeland – Dream Land

Dream Land The smell of apples and what I thought was sage     Smell of the wind like the smell of stars arching over a house planted halfway up the hill     This is a love letter A dream of crickets and frogs, notes in the night     Orchard quilt of apples and pears     Laden limbs propped up […]