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Sarah Silbert is a full-time professor of writing at Vermont Technical College. She also teaches creative writing at New England Medical Center in Boston and at the Ucross Artists Foundation in Wyoming. This past year, her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Hope Magazine, and Agni.
When the doctors told us Jeff was dying of leukemia, he and I began to fight. Jeff was twenty-nine, I was twenty-eight, and we’d been building a sixteen-by-twenty-four-foot timber-frame cabin on a small hill of hard ground in Vermont’s Green Mountains.
September 2003At every step, the brook changes; it becomes deep or shallow, wide or narrow, silent and frozen or splashing over logs and stones. I see now that we are like that water, carving our experience into life’s terrain.
October 2001Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
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