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Laurel Bennett

Umbra

On a vesper grey day last autumn, on a plateau near Big Sur a pushy fog stole in, and like a hungry predator, gnawed at the sky and all below, erasing and silencing one primal zone at a time: mountains, cliffs, canyons, coastlines, seashores . . . and my aging memory.

quarter moon—
a shadow of
itself

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About the Author

Laurel Bennett was born and raised in Greenwich Village (in the brownstone where James Baldwin lived). She spent 15 years in Greece and the next 20 as an editor and copywriter in Richmond, Virginia.