Winter sticks
between our ribs:
lightless shale, bayonets of ice
and last September’s briars.
JoSelle Vanderhooft
JoSelle Vanderhooft is the author of the novels The Tale of the Miller’s Daughter (Papaveria Press) and Owl Skin (Papaveria Press), and the poetry collections The Minotaur’s Last Letter to His Mother (Ash Phoenix), Desert Dreams (Papaveria) and Desert Songs (Cross-Cultural Communications). Her fiction has appeared several times in Reflection’s Edge and Byzarium, and her poetry can be found in a number of zines such as Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, and Cabinet des Fees.
