When I wake planning the lives of others,
after a night of hot sheets and hunger that blooms in the dome of the belly, I search for mint along our road. Mint-- lover of ditches and summer rain, of places where the dark woods gives way to sun.
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Ginnah HowardGinnah's work has appeared in Water~Stone Review, Permafrost, Portland Review, Descant 145, Eleven Eleven Journal, The Tusculum Review, and elsewhere. Her book Night Navigation, Book 2 of the Upstate novel trilogy, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Chronogram called Book 3, Doing Time Outside (Standing Stone Books, 2013), “a beautiful read.” Book 1 of the trilogy, Rope & Bone: A Novel in Stories (Illume, 2014) was listed by Publishers Weekly as one of the “best of the best” Indie books of 2015. Her latest book, I’m Sick of This Already: At-Risk Learning in a High School Class, focuses on a year of working with students in a small rural town. For more information visit: www.GinnahHoward.com |