Elsewhere
Words By Roisin Kelly, Art By Naiche Washburn
It’s strange how many countries and futureshave receded from you like the tide and that you, once so restlesswill now have to stand still.I used to picture you on some Chinese mountain your hair brushing the sky’s blue domeor in some other sceneyou painted with stories of your travels:glittering cities, lantern-hung alleys.You direct my fingers…
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Roisin Kelly
Roisin Kelly was born in Northern Ireland but has mostly lived south of the border. After completing her MA in Writing at National University of Ireland, Galway, she moved to Cork City where she currently lives and writes. Her work has been published in the Bohemyth, Southword, Mslexia, HARK, The Stinging Fly, The Interpreter’s House, and Raving Beauties (Bloodaxe 2015). Her poems are forthcoming in POETRY, The Penny Dreadful, and The Timberline Review. In 2015 she was placed third in Synaesthesia magazine’s poetry competition.
Naiche Washburn
Naiche Washburn is a Denver-based artist, voice actor, and game designer. Naiche enjoys comics, cartoons, horror movies, and 80s music.
