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.
CORA MCCANN LIDERBACH
We spilled from American ships / rushed to a bridge facing the glacier / to film a coastal brown bear splashing in a brook / wrestling paws round a red Sockeye salmon / rumbling to green privacy / to tear it open, claws & jaws / I wondered what would happen if she paused midstream / to sniff our own warm flesh, the salt tang of human blood / these old legs wouldn’t carry me far / even from a bear summer-heavy with salmon / I felt somehow safe amid the throng / believing the fittest & fleetest would pull the rest of us to safety / not abandon us to hunger’s cruel indifference
Cora McCann Liderbach lives in Lakewood, Ohio. Her chapbook, Throughline, was published in 2024 (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry appears in Sheila-na-Gig Online; The Roads at Night Looked Like Our Futures Anthology; Quartet; Unbroken; Light Enters the Grove Anthology; and The RavensPerch. She was a Best of the Net nominee.
