November 2022 Issue

Mar 28, 2023

Vol. 1 Issue #11 November 8, 2022

Introduction to the November Issue

Thank you to the many readers who reached out to me about my sister’s passing. Your comments, memories, and stories filled me with joy even when they prompted a few more tears. Beth was universally loved and admired. She touched many, many lives. I am happy to carry on her dream of Starry Starry Kite this month with two new poems and an essay.

Enjoy!

Linda

Without Words

By Mycelia C.

We walk without words through the near pasture

where Monarchs flit above flowers,

Larks build grass houses,

an old birch tree towers.

Your hard edge softens as you lift

a fallen bird’s nest, carry it tenderly, eyes brightening,

not thinking of your father dead three years

nor the rough road you have taken.

A Call to Arms: Aventuras en Las Sierras Guadarramas

By Stephanie Shafran

In the fall of 1971, at the outset of my junior year abroad as a student at Smith College, I had an unforgettable experience in Spain. It was on a mountain hike in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range near Madrid. The hike was organized for the group by our program director Charles, a Smith faculty member and outdoorsman.

As we gathered on that balmy, bright Saturday in October, I was feeling alienated from the other “Smithies,” who seemed so self-assured. I was in a particularly sullen mood for this first outdoor activity. Throughout the hike, I kept to myself, watching the other students talk and laugh as they climbed the trail. Once we reached the top of the mountain, I stopped to rest.

Applause

By Jane McPhetres Johnson

walking on dead leaves

blood reds, skin tints, old fool's gold

soles on souls, clapping

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