Wren rushes to the train.
The umbrella she stole from the library’s lost and found
flaps against the edges of an incoming storm.
At the end of the line an attendant finds the umbrella in 13B.
The faces of a bird-thin woman slide down the window,
mirrored inside each raindrop.
About the Author
Janette Rosebrook grew up in the Pacific Northwest, eating salmonberries, redcaps and muddying up her good school shoes in search of frogs. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in The Madrona Project Volume III: The Universe is a Forest, I Sing The Salmon Home Anthology (a Washington State Book Award Winner), Cirque: A Literary Journal of the Pacific Rim, and Washington 129. She currently lives in Bellingham, Washington.
About the Artist
Yasmine Essence Soria is a Latina photographer and writer based in Chicago. She received a Bachelor's in Creative Writing with a minor in Photography. Her photo work has been published in Mystic Owl Magazine, Outlander Zine, and displayed in the For Women, By Women Gallery from 2022-2024. She aims to create work to express core aspects of her identity while concentrating on developing new world perspectives. Currently, she is a freelance photographer focusing on portraiture, but she also enjoys street and film photography. Follow her on Instagram @yasmine.essence.
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