Today at school, my sinus headache made me grumpy with my students, even though they hadn’t done anything to make me grumpy. But I don’t think they noticed; they were grumpy too. One boy bravely volunteered answers and completed his work while holding a tissue to his nose the entire class period. One girl hadContinue reading “Ode to Oak Season”
Category Archives: Poetry
Night Walk
This poem was published in Dreams & Nightmares a year ago this month, and I’d like to share it with you now. Night Walk One night I walked outside to look at the full moon, but there was no moon, only clouds and wind that whispered Go, Go into my ears. So I went. Without phone orContinue reading “Night Walk”
Morose Penguin Review, Issue One (and Done)
A Note From the Editor: In the world of literary journals, it’s unheard of for every single submission to be worthy of publication, but that’s exactly what happened with Issue One (and Done) of the Morose Penguin Review. The pieces arrived for my perusal, and not once was I disappointed. (Unless I was supposed toContinue reading “Morose Penguin Review, Issue One (and Done)”
Carie Juettner 