Once

Written By Amanda Barusch

Dear Ones, I'm thrilled to report that my micro fiction piece, "Once" has appeared in Crack the Spine literary magazine. The first line of this poem came while I was walking along a path between two rows of plane trees in Barcelona. It just came! Then it took two years for the piece to write itself. Please click here to read about a woman who turns into a tree. I hope you'll enjoy it. If you have time, please leave a comment.

Tall trees in winter viewed from the ground looking straight up.

Image is from Crack the Spine

 
Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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