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  • Home
  • About/Submissions
  • Masthead
  • Featured Poets Series
    • 3 poems by Chris Prewitt
    • 3 poems by Taylor Byas
    • 3 Poems by David Hanlon
    • 3 poems by Bailey Grey
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 1.5: Hozier-inspired
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3: Recovery
    • Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey
    • Special Summer Solstice Prose Issue
    • Issue 4.1
    • Issue 4.2
    • Still Standing
Dryad

Once a leaf grew from my palm
Tender and pale green.
It unfurled and I tore it out
Afraid.
But another took its place
And another and another
Until
I awoke in a forest
Feet rooted to the ground
Bark under my tongue
Unable to scream.


Suzanne Craig-Whytock is a Canadian novelist. Her shorter pieces of writing have been featured in Slippage Lit, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Women Writers Women('s) Books, The Sirens Call, Elephants Never, The Ekphrastic Review, and is upcoming in Moria Literary Magazine. She was a nominee for Spillwords 2019 Publication of the Year (non-poetic). Find her on Twitter: @scraigwhytock"
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