Palm trees against the pink sunset sky
Beach Palms, Laguna Beach ©Alexandre Nodopaka


islands windmills stars

Marcia Arrieta

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the moon is full
the forest is losing trees

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we dream of wildflowers & oranges
we dream of Spain & Greece

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an ancient beggar comes to the door
& knocks           no one is home

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we sleep in suitcases

Marcia Arrieta is a poet and artist. Her work can be found in Word For/Word, The Inflectionist Review, Otoliths, The American Journal of Poetry, The Meadow, DASH, Angel City Review, Spectra, Sylvia, and Borrowed Solace, among others. In 2022, a book of her collages and poetry “through time waves” (Arteidolia) and her fourth poetry collection “within sky” (BlazeVOX) were published. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.

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