BROWSE Columns
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I have a forest in my head
where I can bathe
(Japanese Forest Bathing is a thing)
where I am highly oxygenated,
the dizziness of clarity, the smell
of nature—the essence of all beings,
a loamy scent, the earth from where
we start and where we end, birds
that call to each other and to me,
a ladybug that lands on my moist
skin for luck, as I travel through.
Victoria Dym is a graduate of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Clown College with a degree in Humility, a Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Masters of Fine Arts, Creative Writing-Poetry from Carlow University. Her two poetry chapbooks, Class Clown, and, When the Walls Cave In. were published by Finishing Line Press in 2015 and 2018. Victoria’s chapbook, Spontaneous, was selected by Northwest Florida Poet Laureate Katherine Nelson-Born as the winner of the 2021 Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge Contest, won a cash prize and was published by the West Florida Literary Federation in 2022. Victoria's full-length poetry collection, The Hatchet Sun, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2023. (IG: @goddess9799)
