Method: For “Final Summer” I added the text I found on the back of the photograph. The photos’ indistinct subject struck me, why would anyone photograph such a scene? Turn it over and it becomes more clear. Sometimes we can’t recognize value until something is lost.
PJ Wren is a scientist and writer from Kensington, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in The Lake, After the Pause, and Plum Tree Tavern.
PJ Wren is scientist and writer in Kensington, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in Unlost, The Lake, After the Pause, and Plum Tree Tavern.
PJ Wren is a scientist and writer from Kensington, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in The Lake, After the Pause, and Plum Tree Tavern.
PJ Wren is a scientist and writer from Kensington, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in The Lake, After the Pause, and Plum Tree Tavern.
PJ Wren is a scientist and writer from Kensington, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in The Lake, After the Pause, and Plum Tree Tavern.
my
kits
are all
gone mad they
cry for bones, they break
the dam, they bite no bark nor brook
the otter’s hold. Hail them all, the pillars of the church!
Hail the broad march, hail the spring dance, hail the telemark, and make the fairy goblins dance!
Source: Song titles from Grieg’s Slätter, as performed by Eva Knardahl
PJ Wren is scientist and writer from Kensington, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in The Lake, After the Pause, and Plum Tree Tavern.
He was
feeling insulted (by a peer)
He was
feeling unfairly criticized (by a professional critic)
He was
feeling diminished (by commenters)
He was
feeling (merely) exposed
He had
a recurring sense that if
He had
allowed her to speak
He would
have been (destroyed) forever.
Source text: Heather Havrilesky, “When the Powerful Cry ‘Bully'”, New York Times April 26, 2016
PJ Wren is scientist and writer from Kensington, Maryland. Her work has appeared in The Lake, Apocrypha and Abstractions, and elsewhere.