When I crawl inside caves, I am going counter to everything I have spent years of my life looking for. I am going downward, and I am going into the darkness. By moving toward what I have been trying to escape, I free my mind.
~ “A Total Immersion in Descent,” Room Magazine
“Inside, Outside,” Minola Review
“Between the Edge and the Chasm,” carte blanche
“A Total Immersion in Descent,” Room
“Feeding the Serpent,” “no one was singing” and “Going Back into the Underworld,” CAROUSEL
“The Psychiatric Patient Profiled in My Application,” Dreamers
“they told me the future is friendly,” Into the Void
“My Fingerprints Dissolving into Air,” The tƐmz Review
“The Choreography of Passing,” filling Station
“Reading Recommendation,” The Fiddlehead
“Love Letter for the Broken” and “no place i belong,” Madwomen in the Attic
“their hands were full of love,” antilang.
“I Will Be Inside the Crickets Soon,” Arc Poetry
“Rest” and “Channels,” The Fiddlehead
It’s best to lay your cheek in the dirt, and ask:
What are you prepared to sacrifice for this?
~ “Anything You Want Out of Life,” A Bouquet of Glass
Carol Krause 