
Fragility: Virginia Schnurr
. . . I should borrow a drill to bore
into this ice. Is it thick enough
to skate?
Grinning, my husband pushes
our four-year-old into the middle of the pond.
“You won’t learn skating by sitting on the bank.”

Daphne's Daughters: Jenna Whittaker
We are Daphne’s daughters—
her limbs breaking bark.
We are the roots
untangling
this tiger from the earth . . .
