Recenter Press
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    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Emma Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
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Seams

BY GRAY EDEN.


​I remember when we ran
a stitch along the coast
where I was sand

and you were sea.
It was easy to tangle
without knowing what was

you or dune grass;
me or hijiki.
The sea is more sour than it sounds.

The salt hardened the silk.
When we went to bed,
we lay in stiff sheets.

It is the undoing that we
never learned. You try.
Approach me gently

and pull away. What to do
with an unraveled heart?
The tendrils fray and snap,

                                    but here we are, pulling.​

Gray Eden is from Pittsburgh, PA. They are the Associate Editor of  Collision Literary Magazine. They are probably flossing mango out of their teeth right now.
  • About
  • Books
    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Emma Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews