Ladybird Grove (Lana’s Song)

Recently published in Red Canary magazine, my story “Ladybird Grove” takes us deep into the forest, where human memory meets the rhizome …

I have no channel, no verifiable method, for communicating these words to you. The science of life has not yet decoded these wild spaces. I myself do not understand how I came to be here. This is a green and wordless place, shadowed and rainweary. When the sky yawns, light rushes in and drapes the canopy with diamonds and retreats as quickly as it came. So, I have peace and spectacle. Everything else, I am coming to understand, is far away and long ago. But even here the words remain within me, longing for you. All I can do is trust that they will leave my stillness and travel this loamy soil to find you, wherever you are. Read the full story in Red Canary magazine …