Victoria Forester Courtland’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Bathtub Gin, Washington Square, and The Worcester Review. Her piece, Mandorla, is based on the searing hot walled city of Siena, Italy, where she experienced little reprieve from an assault on the senses.
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
The leak in your breathing/ tube makes a cartoon squeak./ It takes two nurses, silent/ as nuns, to place you/ in my arms...
If I have already/ gone insane/ but I want to get/ crazier yet,/ what’s my move?/ Go outsane?
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