LESLIE BEACH
Writer, Editor, Teacher, Guide
M.A. English: Creative Writing, SFSU
M.F.A. Creative Writing, SFSU

Taking joy in the wild world as it integrates into and diverges from the daily human one; fostering connections with that wild world, by taking young folks outside, by asserting its necessity, by writing words that seek to render insignificant the unreal lines between.

"Yes, I oversympathize. Overrelate.
Yearn to belong, to remake myself
into a goat even a goat would accept,
a finch with flight. Walk through
the aquarium aching for
the sacrificial specimens
even as I make eyes at the cuttlefish
shape my hands like their tentacles
to see if we might share gestures."

--Splice