November 2008 Issue
A Good Idea at the Time
it must have seemed like a good idea at the time:
to wriggle up from moon-swung deeps, from slime
climb onto rock, grow legs–six? four? [...]
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Brooke Pacy has taught literature and writing in Baltimore, Maryland, spent eight summers sailing the New England coast with her husband, and lives now year round in midcoast Maine. Her publication credits include poems or essays in Animus, Zone, The Pearl, Hidden Valley, Off the Coast, Wolf Moon Press, The Baltimore Sun, and Smithsonian Air and Space, as well as feature articles in Notre Dame Magazine and Wake Forest Magazine. A novel is out looking for a home.
it must have seemed like a good idea at the time:
to wriggle up from moon-swung deeps, from slime
climb onto rock, grow legs–six? four? [...]