The instances of botched drownings have been increasing. People jumping from city piers, coastal cliffs, driving miles to walk into the sea. Too many coincidences are called something else. Rupture. A stray radio signal brings…
Posts Published by Gnaomi Siemens
Gnaomi Siemens is an interdisciplinary literary artist based in New York City who writes about ecology, culture, and art through a queer, ecofeminist lens. Her work can be found in The Believer, Seneca Review, Poet Lore, and Action, Spectacle, among others in the US and abroad. Her first poetry collection, The Errant, was a finalist for The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize and The Berkshire Prize.
This Is Not a Sonnet for Your Silence
Force a flower from a branch like a dead god come back. The king is about to announce there are no cracks. But a hundred bucks says that thirst-trap snapping Jolene will one hundo percent…
Lindisfarne
Keening nuns turn to boreal fiends on their tidal island, filing through blind arcades fighting nor’easters. Heading chapel wise their habits keep their foreheads cozy. But the altar has gone green. The girls drop their…