When We Meet Again | New essay by Siarra Riehl
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We’re welcoming spring with When We Meet Again, a new essay by transdisciplinary writer, performer, and teacher Siarra Riehl. The original artwork was created for this piece by Claire Marsh.
When We Meet Again by Siarra Riehl | Artwork by Claire Marsh
Deep in the mossy centre of my body blooms a flower. The red clover—its more than one hundred petals reaching from its centre—secures like sugar maple sap to my lungs, heart, stomach. Through my veins a Morgan horse, Figure, races and finds the spots where petal meets body. He licks and drinks from the sweetness there, strengthening the connection between nature and self…
Read When We Meet Again.
Featured writer Siarra Riehl (she/her) lives and creates on Treaty Six land in so-called Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with her wife and two cats. A transdisciplinary writer, performer, and teacher, she holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Siarra’s fiction received an honourable mention in AWP’s 2020 Intro Journals Project, and her work has appeared in Under the Gum Tree, Landing Zone, On the Run, and elsewhere. Embodiment, magic, and queerness are her writing practice's heart.
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