by McKenzie | Oct 25, 2019 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog
Happy Friday, friends! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week. I know in the last couple weeks I’ve been a bit off my game as far as posting regularly. I’ve had good reasons—family stuff, birthdays, travel, illness—but that doesn’t mean...
by McKenzie | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog, My Poems
IN NATURE My daughter calls the outdoors home & needs no reason to enter. Her skin, the brush. Her voice & birdsong. Her running speed & the air through the field. They are the same. Sometimes, she blends in so well, I cannot see her. The brownest strands...
by McKenzie | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, My Poems
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”—Hamlet A SLEEPING OCTOPUS CHANGES COLOR WHILE DREAMING I can see it up there, high in the corner like a spider hosting its web....
by McKenzie | Sep 17, 2019 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog, Literary Scene
Happy Tuesday, friends! I hope you’re having a wonderful start to your week, because I know I am! Fall is almost here, I’ve been writing daily, and I just received wonderful news: I’m one of four new Poetry Readers for Muzzle Magazine! I’m so...
by McKenzie | Sep 3, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Happy Tuesday night, all! I hope you had a wonderful weekend—and a relaxing Labor Day. My Labor Day weekend revolved (mostly) around lovely “guilty pleasures,” ranging from binge-watching Season 3 of The Good Place, starting my latest re-read of...
