She discovered them on post cards—forests
she could hold in her hands.
Later in Escalante Canyon, she met them beside a beaver dam—
sun flecks filtering through florescent green leaves.
Their stretched arms on long gray sticks quivered
in the morning’s brightness, glittering like flames
or wishes flickering in the air
long after breath has blown the candles out.
Anna Citrino grew up in California and taught abroad in international schools in the countries of Turkey, Kuwait, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, India, and the UK for twenty-six years. Her current home is the hills of Soquel, California. A graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont, Ms. Citrino's work has appeared in various literary journals including, Canary, Paterson Literary Review, and The Evening Street Review, among other publications. She is the author of two chapbooks, Saudade and To Find a River. Her book, A Space Between, is forthcoming in December, 2019. Read more of Anna's writing at annacitrino.com
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