“The Lake, the House, the Bus” by Laurinda Lind

Water no, spirit no, water in dreams, water like Lake Ontario, water like mud always spraying stones—a dream about us.In the house, lake under us, big house made of good wood. A foundation, it was a start.But then ambivalence, maybe a bus or an ambulance, like you playing the other husband or he playing you, and everyone rolling, all of us laying down miles, the land running out—made me want to skip the shore, made me want to work it all back to waves.

Laurinda Lind lives in New York's North Country, near Canada. Some poetry acceptances/ publications have been in Another Chicago Magazine, Comstock Review, Constellations, Main Street Rag, and Paterson Literary Review; also anthologies Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (New Rivers Press) and AFTERMATH: Expressions of Loss and Grief (Radix Media). In 2018, she won first-place awards for the Keats-Shelley Prize for adult poetry and the New York State poetry competition.

Christa Joyner Moody holds a B.A. in Photo-communications from St. Edward's University in Austin, TX, and earned her Masters in Art Education at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. Following her education she taught photography and art in Houston, TX and Reston, VA. Her photography has been published, selected for juried shows, won awards, and featured in local shows. Currently she is a full time photographer and artisan residing in the Tampa Bay area with her husband and children. In addition to photography, she enjoys glass fusing as well as designing and creating light fixtures, candles, and a variety of other items from up-cycled materials. Her first love, however, is photography; she classifies her work as fine art, documentary, and "slice of life". You can find more of her photography on Instagram at @cjmoody.