A journal of art + literature engaging with nature, culture, the environment & ecology

Mountain mahogany

Oakley Ayden, California, USA

 

amongst mountain 

mahogany my daughter 

 

plops found rocks into an 

emptied instant coffee crock—

 

like me she learns the woods 

will tenderly fill each void 

 

you bring her, 

sans query.

 

Oakley Ayden (she/her) is an autistic, bisexual American writer from North Carolina. Her poems appear in Maw: Poetry JournalGhost City ReviewNot Very QuietSledgehammer Literary Magazine, The Minison Project, Brave Voices MagazineThe Cabinet of Heed, and elsewhere. She lives in California’s San Bernardino National Forest with her two daughters. Find her onoakleyayden.com, Twitter (@Oakley_Ayden), or Instagram (@Oakley.Ayden). 

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