Joyce Schmid is a grandmother and psychotherapist living in Palo Alto, California, with her husband of over half a century. Her recent work has appeared in Poetry Daily, Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, Antioch Review and other journals and anthologies.
Once it was a gradual thing to leave a place.Today a whoosh and everything is gone—the Rocky Mountains with their snowy glaciersmelting into lakes and rivers,... Read more.
