The Sounds Before The Sounds I Knew Before Everyone says it’s quieter now, but there are more sounds: Not the bird’s song, but the first …
Olivia Hajioff

Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation
The Literary Heart of Indian River County Since 1992
The Sounds Before The Sounds I Knew Before Everyone says it’s quieter now, but there are more sounds: Not the bird’s song, but the first …
An Essential Worker Opines She was waiting in line Masked and standing on a floor decal As I rang out preceding customers Hoping she would …
Landmark The train like a wailing pronoun in the dark breath of night when quarantine responds to quarantine and I ask myself how do I …
Pandemic Hands Moments between hands Lockets of memories Lesson of Life Palm reading in real time Pandemic hands Hands in a flurry, hurried hands A …
Safekeeping Where do all the touches go for safekeeping? If I could collect them in a jar Like a child’s treasure I’d bury them in …
As the Crow Flies The black crow surveys what will be hers While I walk empty streets and boulevards Playing the waiting game. The crows, …