K. Alma Peterson is a graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She has published two books of poetry with Blaze Vox Books: Was There No Interlude When Light Sprawled the Fen, 2010, and The Last Place I Lived, 2015. Her poems have appeared widely in print and online journals, most recently, poems in Delmarva Review 16, and art in Penn Review. She lives in Florida.
As a ghost, I explore concrete — cities mostly where I blend with smoke, and smoke cigarettes (nothing to lose; I am ephemeral). Selfies only other ghosts can see — I take them of myself with marble statues, terrazzo floors, porcelain vases. I envy the edges of things: corners of buildings, facial features, drops of rain. Every chance I get,… Read more →