Superstition Sonnet
Author's note: The last line of the poem is from my #1 favorite Douglas Kearney lecture #WEREWOLFGOALS.
Teri Vela (she/her) is a poet, witch, and mother, born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada (a city standing on Southern Paiute traditional lands). She is the first generation of her family born in the US, and a former public interest attorney. Her publications include poetry in Honey Literary Journal, Witch Craft Magazine, Gordon Square Review and more. She is a reader for Split Lip Magazine and a former managing editor with The Seventh Wave. Her favorite food is mango in all forms: sour, sweet, spicy, unripe, sticky with rice, and so on. She is an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College.
Edited by Briana Gwin.
The header image was created by Natasha Loewy and Owen Takabayashi, featured artists for the On Permanence anthology.