Coordinates | Cymelle Leah Edwards

Cymelle Leah Edwards (she/her) is a Pushcart Prize nominee from Flagstaff, AZ. Her work has been published in Elm Leaves Journal, Contra Viento, and Ghost City Review and has been honored with the Diana Gabaldon Creative Writing Award. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University. Edwards also serves as a board member for the Northern Arizona Book Festival and editor at Kelp Journal.     You spits loose mist onto dizzy panoramaof blackland prairie, rolling sycamores thumbed to sky— indian paintbrush texture maps lines ofcarraba-yellow canisters stretched across the plain, songbirds swallow alkaline clay,carry monarchs to their nests and genuflectthe air that moves between bone, a reservoir for seismic echoes—when you stroke the membrane of rosehill it hews and turns to meadow.