STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
RACHEL CLOUD ADAMS
Anger like a thin-toed
and crinoline spirit
rises from its bed,
places its feet
on these rough floorboards,
walks through narrowed-in darkness
to this greenhouse room
and tears out each begonia
by its veins.
Rachel Cloud Adams is the editor for an advocacy association and the founder/editor of the literary journal Lines + Stars. Her poems have appeared in The North American Review, Big Muddy, Salamander, DIALOGIST, The Conium Review, Blueline, Memoir, and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of three poetry chapbooks: What is Heard (Red Bird Press, 2013), Sleeper (Flutter Press, 2015), and Space and Road (Semiperfect Press, 2019). She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and received her MA in writing from the Johns Hopkins University.
