Therese Gleason is author of Libation (2006), co-winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Competition; her second chapbook, Matrilineal, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. A Pushcart nominee, her work has appeared/is forthcoming in The Worcester Review, America, New Ohio Review, San Pedro River Review, Literary Mama, Psaltery & Lyre, Halfway Down the Stairs, […]
Therese Gleason
Therese Gleason: Milk Teeth
Did you know teeth are the only part of the skeleton you can see? I massage my daughter’s bottom incisors, little nubs budding in slobbery beds. I have never broken a bone, but once I cracked a tooth with my midnight clenching. At fifteen, they sliced tender gums to carve my wisdom teeth […]
Therese Gleason: Found Rose: Antique Rose Garden
South Carolina Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Gardens I. Rosa X, small and hardy, plundered from family cemetery. You’re a climber, limber on the trellis, tiny pink petals brown and papery at the edges. Rose rustlers, skilled in the archaeology of flowers, plucked you from your grave bed: a resurrection. II. White […]