STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
SARAH SEYBOLD
The only poem I wrote my mother liked
described the Burnett Cemetery.
A small poem she put away,
abandoned as the dead
tucked under dark headstones
piercing orange-pink sky
as the sun rose
above that sad hill
all the cold mornings
I stood alone
beside the ice-crusted
country road,
waiting for the school bus
at daybreak.
What young words
had I written then?
Now that she’s gone
I don’t know where
the poem is.
Sarah Seybold’s poetry and prose have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, ZYZZYVA, The Dodge, LIT Magazine, SWWIM Every Day, Arts & Letters, Thimble Literary Magazine, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere, and her poetry has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana, and earned her BA in English and Gender Studies from Indiana University and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon. She lives with her husband and daughter in Columbus, Ohio.
