I’m always sure it can’t be real when something good happens for me, especially something having to do with my career. So when my poem appeared on Verse Daily on April 1, […]
Let’s School Together
Love and Psychics
Ah, February, the month of love. As a poet, I am expected to shower my readers with love poetry. However, as a poet, I do, shall we say, lean toward the dark, the […]
What Are We But a Fire?
Since the U.S. election when somehow–impossibly, it had seemed–Donald Trump became president-elect, I have been vacillating between tears and panic. Subsequent events have proven many of our fears well-founded–the rise in hate […]
Poems by Katherine Riegel featured in the online magazine Escape into Life
Spirit Animals My brother tells me he’s going to the doctor; he gets teary too easily now. There must be something wrong that will show up in the blood. I don’t tell […]
