Did you take it into your mouth feel its roundness and warmth did the rays shoot up and out from your eyes and didn’t everyone see that didn’t they comment on it and didn’t this go on for years like the sun would linger just above the horizon until at last sun kissed land and land swallowed sun and didn’t the temperature drop then as a changed light drained from your eyes and hasn’t it come now night deep and uncertain has night truly come?
Bill Hollands’ work has been featured on The Slowdown podcast and in such journals as DIAGRAM, The Adroit Journal, The Greensboro Review, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Plume, and Boulevard. His debut collection Mangrove (ELJ Editions) will be published in 2025. He lives in Seattle with his husband and son. Find him on Twitter/X @bill_hollands.
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Beth Horton holds degrees in creative arts therapy, sociology, and majored in health science at Niagara University, located near Buffalo, New York. Her love for art began as a small child, watching her father paint into the wee hours of the morning. In addition to abstract art, Beth enjoys photography, mixed-media composition and illustration.