Our second spring, rowan unfurls at the foot of the chapel.
I reach for him, a trucker motel in one of the Carolinas—
this uncomplicated matter, these competi...
Ella Schmidt is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer from St. Louis, Missouri. Her work has appeared in the Notre Dame Review, Oakland Arts Review, Hobart, and the multimedia anthology “A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis” (Littoral Books). She lives in Boston.