Brooke Larson

BROOKE LARSON {[email protected]} holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and is currently a PhD student in poetry at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Offbeat, Fravel, Cactus Heart, Desert Journal, Scribendi, and Noise Medium. An occasional wilderness guide, she still does a little pledge of allegiance to find her right and left.

Ecology of Absence

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 4

For starters, the desert is not empty. Things grow in ways you could not dream up. In the Arizona desert, where I was dropped off as a pain-in-the ass teen, there are ocotillo and prickly…

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