“Misha” by Gudrun Bortman published in Fireweed, released in Oct 2018 by The Poetry Box. Misha that winter you asked me to scatter your ashes in my garden sheltered under the big oak’s branches at the canyon edge & I promised lightly— thinking that time still far away. That spring one day in March they handed you […]
Gudrun Bortman
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Fireweed by Gudrun Bortman Tentative Release Date: Oct 15, 2018 In November 2008, a vicious wildfire swept through Santa Barbara, California, forcing many residents to flee in fear, while wondering what would survive the angry flames. These poems tell that story through one woman’s experience of loss and her resiliency to rebuild in the aftermath […]