No plans and preparations without first having a vision, like an angel appearing to you in your bedchamber, or thought slipping in as you butter your toast, stir your coffee. And how to know what to pack, especially for a trip to where no one’s ever been? Easier to follow a river or a mountain … Continue reading Begin,
by Lynn Pedersen
after lines from Cesare Pavese’s “Grappa in September” Her problem, of course, is that she was never a child, and so hadn’t the opportunity to know the tree as a sapling, to climb its branches, bark roughing her thighs, but only viewed it with the distance of an adult. Now it’s a question of staying … Continue reading Eve Paints the Apple Tree
by Lynn Pedersen
Lynn Pedersen’s poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in New England Review, Poet Lore, The Southern Poetry Review, and The Palo Alto Review. Her chapbook, Theories of Rain, was published by Main Street Rag in 2009. A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
