Scent of Rain
Scent of Rain Hot breath haunts, lingers in liquid air. Old magic explores the night rhythm of time. Salt of desire, how we growl & devour life’s dirt & dazzle, laugh in the eyes of the sacred. Continue reading Scent of Rain
Author: Charlotte Hamrick
Charlotte Hamrick’s creative writing and photographs have been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies. Her debut prose chapbook, Offset Melodies, is included in Grieving Hope (ELJ Editions), a collection of five microchaps. She is Managing Editor for Reckon Review.
Favorite Creative Nonfiction 2nd Quarter
I’ve had this post in my drafts for quite a while thinking I would write up an introduction as I normally do. But life kept getting in the way and my head has been elsewhere lately. As always, these Creative … Continue reading Favorite Creative Nonfiction 2nd Quarter
extravagant and wild
No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. … Continue reading extravagant and wild
3 Quick Things
I was fortunate to be chosen for the Micro Madness 2022 long list recently and my video reading is up today on the Flash Frontier YouTube channel. My piece is titled “Wild Horses” – yep, after the song. Big thanks … Continue reading 3 Quick Things
Talking Poetry & 2nd Quarter Favs
For me, Poetry is like the weather. It comes in a lightning strike, a fully formed flash, or like a hurricane gathering strength and building as it grows. I can’t decide to write a poem. It decides to allow me … Continue reading Talking Poetry & 2nd Quarter Favs
In Memory
Dirt Cheap QueenIt was the hunt that you loved,your laser blue eyes scopingthe goods as you entered the store, linens beckoninglike flags in the Sun’s stare,sheets with innumerable thread counts,only the softest would do. You’d dig through the pile, mining … Continue reading In Memory
As glasses were raised
we stole away from the table – first you, then me, so as not to invite titters and whispers.The sun was a golden coin melting into smoke kissed mountains, tossing pink confetti into the sky.The evening song of cicadas rose … Continue reading As glasses were raised
Riptide
Dream fluff shadows a thousandskin lathered summers,whispering sea spray, waxing ebb shine,an urge of fingers in hairand salt on tongues.Oh summer, bare your dreamson the wind,Crush on me again With partial help from The Oracle. Continue reading Riptide
Night Bloom
Night BloomOur river path rustleswith ancient songDusk a blanket of fertile airTendriled moss thick and brightcovers a moist moon &we are a wild Eden seeding roses in rock Words chosen from the Nature Magnetic Poetry Kit. Continue reading Night Bloom
Napowrimo 2022 day 29
Plus, we appear irrationalAnger is like a giant wave -We can surf it to solid landOrwe can let it wipe us out.Anger isn’t fuel, it’s acid.We are not righteous warriors,we are slaves kneeling under it.Don’t be a slave.Ride it, feel … Continue reading Napowrimo 2022 day 29
