Ecotone is pleased to be a finalist for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses’ 2023 Firecracker Awards, in the category of Magazines / General Excellence. The editors selected Jason Bradford’s poem “Approaching Limits at Carolina Beach,” from issue 21,…
And he had spoken my name, said I want to go with you— / it was then I remembered I was using his old flannel jacket // for a pillow on my unmade bed, lofted as it was / in a high red cedar. . . .
The husband’s hand caught briefly on the thick baubles dangling from Becca’s lobe. How many fires did those earrings pass through only to be lost in Paradise?