brick walls cementing consciousness;
a burnt trail behind;
a bottom lip quivering.
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Nicole
Yurcaba
hails from a long line of coal miners, Ukrainian immigrants and West Virginian
mountain folk. She is an adjunct instructor of English and Developmental
Reading, substitute teacher and farm hand hailing from West Virginia currently
pursuing her Master of Humanities in English at Tiffin University. Her work has
appeared in print and online journals such as VoxPoetica, Referential
Magazine, Rolling Thunder Quarterly, Decompression, Hobo Camp Review, The Camel
Saloon, Jellyfish Whispers, Napalm and Novocaine, Floyd County Moonshine and
many others. In life, she enjoys taking the unbeaten path, and usually exits
the scene pursued by bear.
Bay Laurel / Volume 2, Issue 1 / Spring 2013