His Eurydice of Chimney Creek, Virginia
Poetry
by JC Alfier
His Eurydice of Chimney Creek, Virginia
for Tay, whose laughter found the wounds
All this holding back dissembling
half-earned sorrow
these waymarks missteps
of the underworld
unaltered eyes dashboard dimness —
autumnal glow of falling back
to fugitive transit: hallway staircase
terminal blind curve
of a midnight exit ramp
About the Author
JC Alfier’s most recent book of poetry, The Shadow Field, was published by Louisiana Literature Press (2020). Journal credits include Faultline, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, River Styx, Southern Poetry Review and Vassar Review. He is also an artist doing collage and double-exposure work.
About the Artist
Kate Horsley’s illustrations are made from a combination of collage, ink and watercolour paintings and fabric. She has taught photography workshops for a number of years in the UK and France, specialising in alternative processes like wet cyanotype, wetplate collodion, gum bichromate and polaroid emulsion lifts. Kate’s main subject-matter is the natural world and she experiments with handmade botanical inks, prints on birch bark, hand-coloured images, and prints made from leaves, flowers and grasses. Visit Kate’s website here.