Linda Drach

Linda Drach facilitates community writing workshops through the nonprofit Write Around Portland. In 2018, she was awarded a writing residency at PLAYA Summer Lake, in Oregon's Outback. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in CALYX, Clackamas Literary Review, the Timberline Review, the Hole in the Head Review, and VoiceCatcher.

“Why Our Marriage Works” and “The Widow Sifts Through the Rubble”

You sing songs to the pug in your fake Cantonese
and seem surprised when he doesn’t understand. You make coffee
a party: dark-roasted beans, gleaming French presses, and hand-thrown
mugs plucked from thrift-store shelves.

Issue 58, February 2022

Linda Drach

Linda Drach facilitates community writing workshops through the nonprofit Write Around Portland. In 2018, she was awarded a writing residency at PLAYA Summer Lake, in Oregon's Outback. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in CALYX, Clackamas Literary Review, the Timberline Review, the Hole in the Head Review, and VoiceCatcher.

“Why Our Marriage Works” and “The Widow Sifts Through the Rubble”

You sing songs to the pug in your fake Cantonese
and seem surprised when he doesn’t understand. You make coffee
a party: dark-roasted beans, gleaming French presses, and hand-thrown
mugs plucked from thrift-store shelves.

Issue 58, February 2022

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