MARY KATHERINE CREEL

FALL/WINTER ISSUE #07 FEATURED POET

Mary Katherine Creel lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she has worked as a journalist and counselor to children and families. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she is author of the poetry chapbook when fire injures, it leaves a distinctive wound (dancing girl press). Her second chapbook, Every Note, a Lantern, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. Her poems have appeared in Atticus Review, The Weekly Pause, kerning, Nature Writing, otata, 1932 Quarterly, and the Pittsburgh Poetry Review. Read more of her poems and short essays at asmallspectacle.substack.com.

SIENNA WINTER

red ochre fields

frozen still

a coyote roams

DECEMBER OMENS

camellia pink sky

morning snow

a sparrow’s white throat