In the interlocking limbs of two eucalyptus trees I see your soul. Can you know it’s me gazing at you from the window? Do you know I dream how it feels to be joined in wood, not flesh? I see elephant tusks and the flesh of paper in your limbs. My boyfriend calls, and says [...]
Grande Femme by Ellen de Vries
I went home, but I’d grown to outsize the furniture. My fingers were even longer than my mother’s hands. Like perspective had misjudged me or distance itself. Mother cried a little, You’ve grown she said. I bent myself into an old chair; the room was clean, ready for me, but I stayed the night there [...]
Dead by Jane Joritz Nakagawa
in the voice of the dead assorted bodies tempt us in a basket speak to the dead they guffaw back enfold in the breeze a tree the tree of everlasting while not paying attention azaleas spring from graves of the dead cut and sold like genitalia in the middle of the night robbed of potential [...]
The Stain by Beate Sigriddaughter
“The worst was the maggots.” That was the accepted punch line of an already firmly established family legend. Lucy had heard it first when she was six. At thirty-eight, she still sat on the edge of her chair waiting for her favorite parts with fairytale anticipation when her parents told it again, as they did [...]
Thoughts During Marilyn Waring’s Lecture by Deborah Hedd
Marilyn told of women and hot steaming dung used for fuel, plaster for houses, fertilizer: dung, life-giving, treasured birthday gift for a desperate gardener of a dry garden. What about world meltdown coming? A questioner asked. Marilyn grew quiet, thoughtful. She spoke of dire omens in other countries. Those who have the most (like the [...]
Unlocking Mother by Del Sandeen
The castoff locs lie the casket next to the woman’s body like a lover. They look almost forlorn, as if wondering why they were beside the woman and no longer crowning her head. Mourners passed by and once in a while, a hand would reach out and graze the locs with no fear before withdrawing. [...]
Ami McKay

by Misty K. Ericson In The Birth House, author Ami McKay tells the story of Dora Rare, a young woman growing up in early 1900s Nova Scotia. Apprenticed to the local midwife, Dora learns first-hand about the miracle of birth and the special bond among women. Following the midwife’s death, Dora becomes the soul provider [...]
Holly Wong
Reflections: Women, War, and Suffering by Holly Wong Art has always been my voice of resistance, my way of making a contribution as a world citizen. In its best moment, art allows us to be more humane and fully aware, and it is the ability to imagine another’s experience of pain that is the first [...]
Vicky Brand
Letting Go, Moving On by Vicky Brand Growing up in our small town in Cheshire, I enjoyed an interesting life as the eldest of three sisters whose parents worked hard at a business making cardboard boxes for the catering trade. From an early age I loved to draw. I remember one picture in particular because [...]
Zaatar Days, Henna Nights by Maliha Masood

Seal Press, February 2007 Review by Misty K. Ericson Feeling trapped in the daily grind of her Seattle tech job, twenty-eight-year-old Maliha Masood set out abroad to ease her restless spirit; but after several months traveling through Europe, she finds herself drawn to a place she never imagined going: the Middle East. The story of [...]















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