Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award
Rise is collection of prose and poetry exploring the concepts of change, renewal, and rebirth. When things change, we experience a variety of emotions-from anger and fear to courage and hope. There is struggle and strife but also the opportunity to rise from the ashes and create, grow, and love.
In these pages, you’ll find stories and expressions of joy and sorrow about love, friendship, family, marriage and divorce, loss and grief, the aftermath of natural disaster, and the consequences of our actions, whether momentous or seemingly inconsequential. Change comes to us in many different forms, but we can be inspired by each other to grow in strength, hope, and resilience as together we each face the challenges of change.
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Introduction vi
1. Follow the Hula Girl 3
2. Suffocation 18
3. Chasing The Phantom of Love 20
4. Flickering Images 28
5. Ashes 30
6. Pinecone 32
7. Puppetmaster 40
8. The Potato Salad War 42
9. Tables and Chairs 59
10. In the Dark of Earliest Morning 61
11. The Other Day I Found A Penny In The Street 63
12.With Fiona Near Reykjavik 71
13. It’s Not The Rain I Miss 73
14. The Last Dance 75
15.Willow Dancing 86
16. The Last Wheat Field 87
17. Quiet Refusal 89
18. Henrietta’s Requiem 97
19. Stille Nacht, helige Nacht 99
20. Rinse, Reincarnate, Repeat 102
21. For Therapists Believing in Angels 112
22. The Evidence of Creation: A Diary 115
23. Birthing 121
24. the most beautiful parts of my body 123
25. Synth 125
26. Unrequited 134
27.Write, Cry Breathe: Surviving the Process of
Transformation 136
28. The Abundance of One 146
29. Bird for Bird 148
30. The Lake House 149
31. Consider the Girl Singing 158
32. Vacancies 160
33. Every Wound is a Portal 168
34. Rising from Disaster 170
35. Orchard 180
36. The Patch 181
37. milkweed 187
38. A Reason For Tables and Chairs 188
39. From House to Home 190
40. Big Hammer Ford 206
41. Portrait: The Housekeeper’s Story 207
42. The Cinderella Who Drove Her Own Coach 210
43. Danny 225
44. Black-Eyed Susans 227
45.Writing Like a Mule 228
46. My Husband’s Hands 239
47. A Tree Grows In The Man Cave 241
48. Cottonwood 254
49. A Love Story for All Seasons 256
50. Air Supply 258
51. Ars Poetica 265
52. Aubade for the Mad King 267
53. Preamble 269
54. Climbing Down The Mountain 270
55. Transformation 282
56. What We Keep 283
57. Things We Forgot to Remember 292
Author Biographies 297
Editor Biographies 311
About the Northern Colorado Writers 315
关于作者
Amy Rivers is the director of the Northern Colorado Writers. She is the author of three novels-her most recent an award-winning psychological suspense novel, All The Broken People. Her short works have been published in several anthologies including We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor, Flash!, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. She has degrees in psychology, political science, and forensic criminology; a few of her favorite topics to write about. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.