Hope

by Megan Atthowe

Art by Nicole Irene

The empty spaces of fossils where trilobites once were. A glint of quartz in a field of sandstone. Smoke lingering in hair. The opalescent layers of a seashell that brighten when wet. Pebbles gathered at the base of a tree, moss grown lush but one-sided on its trunk. Lichen that clings in the most inhospitable of places. Grass pressed into hollows where deer once lay.

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Nicole Irene, Dreaming Sleep The Aqueous Delta Wave, Spray Paint, Textiles, Metal Segments and Crystal Beads