Funerary
Funerary
when you die, I die
Didn’t you know
how hard it is
to know
everything
Everything?
Everything.
erasure, Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night, pg.20
inflorescences, White Snakeroot, Ageratina altissima
Mature male inflorescences, Staghorn Sumac, Rhus typhina
Pressured
Pressured
let him live
You always know just
when
to
absolve him
to
forgive
erasure, Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night, pg. 330
foliage, Weeping Ornamental Cherry, Prunus subhirtella “Pendula”
foliage, Giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum
mature drupes, White Fringetree, Chionanthus retusus
bracts, Bigleaf Dogwood, Cornus macrophylla
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Sonja Johanson has recent work appearing in American Life in Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review, and The Cincinnati Review. She divides her time between work in Massachusetts and her home in the mountains of western Maine.