“Writing Always Helps Me Make Sense of Things”:
An Interview with Stacia M. Fleegal (part 2)

antidotePlease share one of your poems with the readers of the Accents Publishing blog. 

An unpublished poem from the previously mentioned series Anti-Memories:

“Collective Unconscious”

A mother dabs the juice end of a broken
aloevera stalk                         to                     a child’s burned hand.
The child smiles up as the scar forms, becomes
a gnarled walking stick for travel on
a dirt road known, yet never walked before.
The hand on the walking stick
.                                                is many hands,
are everyone’s hands, everyone in the world.
The world is another world, with no dirt roads.
The many feet step on each other, kick
up much dusty pride—how to trailblaze
what already burns eternal?  Still, some
try not to tread on caterpillars, toes,
ferns or succulents.  Some see: the hands
are one hand,               is                      a child’s burned hand.

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing. May all of us heal together. 

If it’s not too personal of a question, tell us about your son. What is he like? Do you think he’ll grow up to be a writer? 

Not at all, I love talking about Jax. He is a busy little man, just starting to crawl, and very physically strong. No health problems, which is remarkable, just on the small side for now. He’s definitely a communicator, very expressive, and generally a happy-face. He has probably the all-time best grin in the world, and I definitely get how many people think that about their own kids, but now it’s my turn to be right about that. Jax loves music, so maybe instead of a writer, he’ll be a musician? I’ll be very happy if he’s artistic, but any speculation is also projection, and I don’t want to spoil the surprise of what he’ll be. Right now, he’s sweet, active, loves baths, does not love green beans, gives kisses, and sleeps in a lot. He also goes to most non-job places we go and just rolls with it. We’re buddies.

Thank you so much for answering my questions, Stacia! Thank you for all you do and best of luck with everything. 

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About Katerina Stoykova

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer is the author of several poetry books, most recently The Porcupine of Mind (Broadstone Books, 2012, in English) and How God Punishes (ICU, 2014, in Bulgarian). Her first poetry book, the bilingual The Air around the Butterfly (Fakel Express, 2009), won the 2010 Pencho’s Oak award, given annually to recognize literary contribution to contemporary Bulgarian culture. She is the editor of The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry (Accents Publishing, 2014), for which she also translated the works of 29 of the 32 included authors. She hosts Accents – a radio show for literature, art and culture on WRFL, 88.1 FM, Lexington. Katerina co-wrote the independent feature film Proud Citizen, directed by Thom Southerland, and acted in the lead role.

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An Interview with Stacia M. Fleegal (part 2)

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