1. The echo of “yes ma’am” caught in my throat
2. A lightning bug that blinked out during Matlock
3. Flour sifted through the ribcage of bream
4. A mason jar of milk turning to Spanish moss
5. My name, called into the storm drain
6. Mud dauber poems scrawled on porch columns
7. My brother’s laugh trapped inside a wind chime
8. An unlabeled jar of mayhaw jelly, lost in the pantry
9. A map where north points to my father’s silence
10. My grandmother’s hands, growing from my wrists
Things Found in Ouachita Soil
MAUDIE BRYANT is a poet and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, identity, and the disquiet beneath the surface of human experience. A graduate of the University of Louisiana Monroe (M.A. in English), her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Arkansas Review, Trampoline, and 3Elements Review. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, where she balances work, motherhood, and her creative practice.