After reading Louise Glück The writer’s most precious resource is the belief that he or she is the solitary witness to a profusion of images from which might be read all the wisdom of the world, Gerald Murnane. For there are truly things that must not be shown to us. And when I see that I […] The post THE TWILIGHT OF CELLOS BY KIMMO ROSENTHAL first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post THE TWILIGHT OF CELLOS BY KIMMO ROSENTHAL appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

I love the ease of perennials in the garden. Coming to life, year after year, with no effort or expense on my part. Except to water now and again, especially if rainfall is sparse. in the spring they come to life just like Christ   Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes […] The post REBIRTH BY JENNIFER GURNEY first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post REBIRTH BY JENNIFER GURNEY appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

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  Juhi Kundu lives in Lexington, MA, and is a high school junior at Concord Academy. She has loved making both 2D and 3D art from a young age. Her work includes everything from drawings, painting, and photography to crafts such as an R2D2 ottoman and a 4-foot-tall Halloween spider display. The post EAVESDROPPING BY JUHI KUNDU first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post EAVESDROPPING BY JUHI KUNDU appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

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Dear Bakersfield, Don’t be a Coeur d’Alene, revving up your truck engines and hurling racial epithets. Don’t terrorize young athletes reveling in their dream. Yes, I know you are a much larger city in a progressive state, but what a state we’ll be in if the racist legacy of Oildale continues, if a BC professor […] The post LETTER TO MY HOMETOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH MADNESS BY ANNIS CASSELLS first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post LETTER TO MY HOMETOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH MADNESS BY ANNIS CASSELLS appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

In the back seat of the old green Dodge, still wearing our pajamas, we laugh and count too loud, try to drown each other out when the road meanders between two cow-filled fields. Twelve! My brother shouts. A moment later, I counter with Fifteen! Dad calls this game “Cow Poker”. The rural route to our […] The post COUNTING COWS BY ANNIS CASSELLS first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post COUNTING COWS BY ANNIS CASSELLS appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

Some days it looks like a dog others, it’s a lioness. The weighty long-tailed bronze sculpture standing on its four feet, anchored by a six-inch tail that narrows, tapers to a point How many years did I watch my mother sit at our yellow Formica kitchen table, slit open the telephone bill, Publishers’ Warehouse ads, […] The post MAMA’S LETTER OPENER BY ANNIS CASSELLS first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post MAMA’S LETTER OPENER BY ANNIS CASSELLS appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more