When the pandemic began, some of us were bound inside, and some of us took to the road: displaced, and sometimes, dispossessed. I began hearing the word “gypsy” again. This poem is dedicated to Sophie. People say gypsy pointing to themselves when they mean they live on a sailboat, hoist their anchor at whim, […]
Maria Kochis
Maria Kochis an emerging writer interested in how interactions with wilderness and wildlife affect personal narrative. I won the Arkansas International Emerging Writer's Award for Fiction in 2018 and have had stories and essays published in Catamaran, Deep Wild, About Place, Weber, and other literary journals.