I drink midnight in sepia ink from yellowed prints where your name waves in letters cursived in time, curving past present to the digital screen
more loveAuthor: Mary Alice Dixon
Mary Alice Dixon, author of Snakeberry Mamas: Words from the Wild (Charlotte Lit Press, 2025) is a co-editor of Kakalak Journal of Poetry & Art. She is a multiple Pushcart nominee and has been a finalist for the NC Poetry Society Poet Laureate Award. Her work appears in Main Street Rag, storySouth, Swing, and elsewhere. Her poetry rises from grief mixed with the conjure magic songs she learned as child from her granny, a blind Appalachian seamstress. Mary Alice lives in Charlotte, NC, where she leads hospice bereavement writing workshops and grows sunflowers in cow manure. Find her at www.maryalicedixon.com.