Field Guide for Park Rangers

Chelsea Stockham is a writer from Bristol, England. Her primary passion is poetry. She is currently completing a Creative Writing degree at Sheffield Hallam University, and working on her first poetry collection. "Field Guide for Park Rangers" was a runner-up in Short Édition's Long Story Short Award, 2020.

How Yosemite can fitwithin these four fragile walls,stretched across the bedspreadwith hip bone peaks pointingheavenward. You wake to dawn's open-window woodnote, ribcage canyon yawning underconifer air, ridges kissed by mistedbreath and lips of florid morning.How you can trace each trail, each thick white-water and thin snow creek scar, by fingernailand still lose yourself like a boyscout between the ponderosas. How Yosemite can fit in the bathtub and the two-seaterthat sheds its leather like pine needlesbut never in your arms, neverlong enough to hear the chasmicecho of your heartbeat return

© Short Édition - All Rights Reserved

20

You might also like…

Poetry

The Big BOO!

Sibylla Na.

There's something in my closet. Its raspy monster breath makes my curtains flutter at night. I tell my mom, but she says it's just the sound of the wind whispering secrets to the moon. There's ... [+]

Poetry
Poetry

Chimera

Nicholas Pe.

A woman who claimed to be a chimera called the library most Tuesdays, on the old line they never got around to disconnecting after the renovations. The call went straight to a yellowed phone hung on ... [+]