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.
SARAH CAHALAN
After years of washing floors and
brushing corners,
I find I like our objects better
when they’re dusty
When spiders embroider tents
inside our hallways
When ants are household gods
we feed at breakfast
and tables rot for lack of wax, like
logs that shelter bees deep in the forest
The house abuzz with company,
invertebrates, the roof caved down
beneath the weight of turkey tails and
agarics
Medicines, emetics, for years
we’ll be resigned to sneezing
Explosive puffballs leave powder
everywhere, ferns fluff out
in dappled corners, persistent
drips from the sink we never fixed
A bloom of weevils from the bags
of flour we’ve been collecting
Slime molds bloom on piles
of shiny magazines
And something has embellished
the pages of my chest with inky
ligatures of lichen:
travel, fitness, lifestyle, leisure
Sarah B. Cahalan (she/her) writes about natural history, hope/grief/faith, the layers of places and how those correspond with our own layers as people moving through time and place. She has poems, current or forthcoming, in The Shore; the tide rises, the tide falls; Pinhole Poetry; Solum; and U. S. Catholic. Sarah is currently based in Dayton, Ohio.
