Ephemerals Climbing the Cataract Falls TrailWe don’t notice the drop-offs much,The abyss. Only the flowers, tiny and paleWith big leaves, and ferns, workingBackward from the reservoir up cataract to cataract,Chasing time backwardsThe closer we get…
Posts Published by Kristel Rietesel-Low
Kristel Rietesel-Low received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review, Willows Wept Review, Western Humanities Review, Cimarron Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she founded the Bay Area Clean Air Coalition.