Singer, the thief, steals a dignity as its needle eye blinks and moves to fool the unsteady hand that attempts to thread it. The sway-back villain disrupts the flow of colorful threads, tampers with tension of the iron-latticed pedal, forcing a frail foot into a press-halt pace. This stitch robber stealthily unwinds: her bobbins, her […]
Catherine Arturi Parilla
Catherine Arturi Parilla
Catherine Arturi Parilla’s poetry has appeared in The Alembic, Compass Rose, Crack the Spine (online and Winter Anthology 2014), descant, Diverse Voices, Eclipse, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Griffin, Knightscapes, Painted Bride, Pisgah Review, Poem, and Wisconsin Review. Presently she is working on her manuscript, Shadows Lie. For three years she has been a poetry reader […]