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Elaine Fowler Palencia lives in Champaign, Illinois and is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, two collections of Appalachian short stories, and four novels. With her husband, Michael [...]

Here was a sea a million years ago. Man does not know this, but the stone remembers. Break it: there is a crab in its guts, all stone now, a magnificent shape that refused to be dust. Before the [...]

Stone upon stone the earth seeks the sky. Step by step my soles ascend to the sun. The hot coal of life still beats in my chest and idle now is the stone knife among these stones. If you are all [...]