Animal Mission In the beginning there was promise.We lived together in harmony, took only what was needed and that was sufficient.The Shepherd walked with his…
"Poetry is the Music of the Soul..." --Voltaire
Author: dhenning
From the Northeast Kingdom When the black bearskin hung from the treelike a rug drying on the clothesline, the hunter recounted how he started an…
Rhubarb Season A rooster crowed at the firststrike of light, awaking the stonechild who held her own child, and was herselfa child. In England, the…
Dianna Henning – email: gammonmackinnon@diannahenning.com, PO Box 184, Janesville, CA 96114 Founder/Facilitator of Thompson Peak Writer’s Workshop in Janesville, CA Area-Coordinator for California Poets in…
“All Winter I Remained With the Dead,” “How Many Times Mayakovsky,” and “Black-capped Chickadees” by Dianna MacKinnon Henning appeared in Issue 19 and can be read here.
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The Leaf Cat If you stare at something long enough it assumes a life all its own.Even the wind carries a child in a rucksack.The…
Mother once told me my wakefulness tookup an entire floor—that’s why I house myself in the woods. Allthe tree knows of cover is moss. All…
THE HOLINESS OF POTATOES Seattle Review 2006 While I count my potatoes’ worth, calculate how much they’ll yield the village, they widen their space…