Laura Donnelly is the author of Midwest Gothic (Ashland Poetry Press 2020) and Watershed (Cider Press Review 2014). Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, SWWIM, EcoTheo Review, The Night Heron Barks, and elsewhere, and her book reviews appear online at Kenyon Review and Terrain. Originally from Michigan, she lives in […]
Laura Donnelly
Laura Donnelly: The First Month
—March, 2020 While the paperwhites bloomed, they prepared the morgues. I’d watched them since January, at first lifting bulbs from their pebbled beds, checking for roots. They reminded me of teeth, those first pale roots, but the paperwhites’ only meal was light and water and the work of transformation. The green cells swelled towards sun. […]