Elisabeth Kinsey

Winter’s Heart: A Sex in the Garden Essay

Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Open Channel / By a featured contributor

In the heart of winter, I contemplate my winter’s heart. Frigid days bring sinking into slush puddles against the icy wind, starting the day with cold feet, jumping into a dark car only to join the cattle call of the highway. I have to refuse this heart. My heart is elsewhere. I am consumed by […]

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Beguiling the Poppy

Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Open Channel / By a featured contributor

I never knew I could be the sort of woman who grew poppies. These women live in gigantic houses with terraced gardens, boasting dripping sedum and perfect bunches of perennials, color coded, tendrilling out of their hibernation in perfect cycles. These women, some sturdy with spiky hair, licking their girlfriend’s ear in public, some in

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