Emma Aylor
Emma Aylor is a poet whose work appears or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Sixth Finch, Barrow Street, Yemassee, and Salt Hill, among other journals. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. Raised in Bedford County, Virginia, she currently lives in Seattle.
Reading List
Self-Portrait as Water Witcher
I can find ground water, gemstones, buried metals, and ores. Witch branch in hand—hazel, willow, or peach—I wander the property as my ancestors did. People walk in straight lines, some in curving lines. Some stand still in one spot and occasionally move. Some do not enter the field at all. The act of paying attention […]