This is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but Grace.—Hafiz Do I have the computer to take on this task? Am I capable of the math, the calculus? To come at it backwards, via the double negative? This kind of logic lies not in my head— could […]
Sharon Corcoran
Sharon Corcoran lives in southern Colorado. She translated (from French) the writings of North African explorer Isabelle Eberhardt in the works In the Shadow of Islam and Prisoner of Dunes published by Peter Owen Ltd., London. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kansas Quarterly, River Styx, Canary, The Buddhist Poetry Review, One Art, Sisyphus, Literary North, and Bearings Online among other journals. Her collection of poems, Inventory, was published in 2018. A second book, The Two Worlds, is forthcoming from Middle Creek Publishing in 2022.
Almost Unimaginable
a new start, permission to travel, to shoot the breeze with someone closer than six feet away, to be jostled on the street, in the grocery store— life, as it was
Compassion
Has to take such different forms these days—displays of affection, too. In lieu of hugs, when friends meet, feet apart, we touch our own hearts, we embrace our own arms. And when I hear of friendships frayed over measures of protection, I realize this mask is a badge— of caution, yes, but also care. […]