Sadie Shorr-Parks grew up in Philadelphia but currently lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, where she teaches writing at Shepherd University. Outside of creative writing, Sadie dabbles in calligraphy, painting, stop animation, embroidery, and puppetry. She likes to start her day by doing the NYT Crossword and hopes to enter the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in […]
Sadie Shorr-Parks
Sadie Shorr-Parks: Good sleep
Tonight is wonderful, considering. Earth is never urged to be so indigo, so chilled. Two crows settled in my tree, a boring mutt of oak and pine outside my kitchen window. I see their rainbow necks twisting while I eat breakfast. Naturally, my dreams are no longer good thinking grounds: swooping shadows on noon sky. […]
Sadie Shorr-Parks: Lunacy
There are pen marks across the sky, black, from a laundry accident. I’m in my backyard hanging clothes on a line. No, I’m online, imagining hanging laundry. I can see a lilac dusk and a red rug. I can imagine my backyard full of baklava trees. I can predict a grey night sky, light pollution […]