Acrostic 
Late at night 
after meals are done I 
ruminate;
spine cracking, releasing in 
exhale. Wondering if this
nightfall the pictures will stop.

A delicate spine | Aesthetic, Persephone, Hades and persephone

Creek Clams
Since childhood, 
I searched for clams with my toes, 
dancing on the sea floor, 
cutting calloused flesh on razor shells and barnacles, 
memorizing the sensation of mollusks 
I slide through muck in a slow, meandering waltz, 
leading with my feet.
 

-Liz Larsen