Issue 3.1
Winter 2023
Amanda Stopa Goldstein
Reflection
Most women have been taught to talk in code about our experiences. It seems like religion, our stories of gods or origin, also employ these codes as a meaning to control people. These poems are a reimagining of the stories that make us women in the modern world.
Echo
Do you understand
the altar I would build you?
It would be
heavy pine
And I would carry it
around my neck
like a millstone
So that when I finally got to you
placed it before you
with a vase of narcissus
plain perennial
you would look at it
And not see me
Amanda Stopa Goldstein is a poet and short story writer. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Philadelphia Stories, Cherry Tree Literary Journal, and The Arlington
Literary Journal.
Amanda's Book Recommendations
Sharon Olds, Arias and The Wellspring
Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
Poems by Saint Catherine of Siena
Angela Duckworth, Grit