In the south corner of the woods
black trumpet and bear’s head tooth
are made from rain. Your wife
begins to weep because she too
has gone under. The stream,
hungry at this time of the year …
Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
NATALIE RICE is the author of the poetry collection Scorch (Gaspereau Press, 2023) and of the chapbook 26 Visions of Light (Gaspereau Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in the Trumpeter, EVENT, the Dalhousie Review, the Malahat Review, Contemporary Verse 2, and Terrain.org, among other publications. She lives in Nova Scotia.