How to make salabatBy Kay Ulanday BarrettFor Cecilia Ulanday Barrett Hoy! Listen, This is how to cut ginger, it’s a root, she said fromChicago basement on first snow of the year. It’s the 90’s. Snow isa big deal. Tear salt missing ocean salt, she cleared her throat.Based on where we’re from, nothing can prepare us…

Split This Rock’s red logo is above bold black text, which reads “Poem of the Week.” Three red dots are centered below. Content Notice: medical trauma; pain; refers to ableism & pandemic Sick pastoral: a sick ecology poemby Kay Ulanday Barrett For Geleni Fontaine and Bilen Berhanu Then how does candy spill? This way? Stare…

Volume 63, Issue 4 Read Kay’s Poem directly here. WHEN AUDRE LORDE was faced with the possibility of a new tumor in her liver in November 1986, she went to Barnes & Noble for more information. “In those hours in the stacks of Barnes & Noble, I felt myself shifting into another gear,” she writes…