poetry • art • music journal
mercurial salon series
community calendar
collective gathering space
founded by Monique Erickson
ISSUE 1. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
01.30.24 digital + print
LONESOME came to me in January:
an impulse, a necessity, a need,
a birthday gift from the other side,
the underside, the underneath.
We are a gathering point,
a fulcrum, a hand that feeds,
what a poet will tell you,
what the old friend sees.
We are wildflowers on the highway
getting lost among the weeds.
What magic have we mustered
from what brought us to our knees?