by Minerva Rising Contributor | May 15, 2015 | Blog, Poetry2, The Keeping Room
Mother, may I go to him, my brother slave to the needled beast Mother, may I love him the way you never did Mother, may I rest his broken heart at your feet Mother may you mend that heart, shattered and addled, for the weary lot of us...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | May 9, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
The small high desert cemetery perched lonely and dry on a forgotten rise past the outskirts of a town that chose to grow in a different direction. The tombstone had reduced the lifetime of this woman’s struggles and joys to her name, dates, and one word—Mother. When...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Apr 24, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: We asked our contributors to respond to this spring-related prompt: Using the following phrase as a starting point write for 10 minutes without self-editing: “Collapsing under a canopy of green…” (source: The Journal) *** My town of Great Barrington,...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: We asked our contributors to respond to this spring-related prompt: Using the following phrase as a starting point write for 10 minutes without self-editing: “Collapsing under a canopy of green…” (source: The Journal) *** The Thrill Is Gone Collapsing...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: We asked our contributors to respond to this spring-related prompt: Using the following phrase as a starting point write for 10 minutes without self-editing: “Collapsing under a canopy of green…” (source: The Journal) *** The Promise of a Tree...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Apr 3, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: We asked our contributors to respond to this spring-related prompt: Using the following phrase as a starting point write for 10 minutes without self-editing: “Collapsing under a canopy of green…” (source: The Journal) *** Shining...
