Weaver's Knot by Glenda Bailey-Mershon

Glenda Bailey-Mershon

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Prose poem

Night Terrors in America
by CJ Evans

If I were to try, I’d begin with awe, with iron core, mantle, the oceans full of secretive things. Land just a glimpse of skin, deliciously unblemished.Then closer: ferns and fjords and sliding glaciers. But I’d end up leaning in to trace walls, borders, touch a finger to the men practicing their sicknesses and landmines. Scratching topsoil to lever out the hydrogen bombs and gas chambers they’d have history’s dirty mirror forget. I still don’t want to leave my want for this place behind. If I were to try again: whales, white spiders in caves, and all those simple stones that carry no trace of us.

“Night Terrors in America” by CJ Evans from LIVES © 2022 CJ Evans. Used by permission of Sarabande Books.

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Glenda Bailey-Mershon

Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014), the story of three generations of Romani women surviving in North Georgia, USA, during the 1960s. She is also the author of Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2023) and other poetry titles, including sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians (Jane’s Stories) and Bird Talk: Poems (Wild Dove). A founder of the nonprofit, Jane’s Stories Press Foundarion, which presents the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, she edited four of their anthologies, the latest being Bridges and Borders, featuring immigrant women writers.

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