TWO POEMS, TWO SPELLS

Awkward Mermaid
2 min readAug 14, 2018

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By Catherine Garbinsky

MOTHER HOLLE,

OR HOW BIPOLAR DISORDER RENDS THE WORLD IN TWO

SHARED TRAUMA

A SPELL FOR HOPE

Catherine Garbinsky is a writer, a witch, and a worrier living in Northern California. She holds a degree in The Poetics of Transformation: Creative Writing, Religion, and Social Justice from the University of Redlands. Catherine’s chapbook of Ursula Le Guin erasures, All Spells Are Strong Here, is part of the Ghost City Press 2018 Summer Series. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in L’éphémére Review, Rose Quartz Journal, Venefica Magazine, Cauldron Anthology, and others. Twitter: @mrsgrrrbinsky

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