Prairie Crocus

Marielle Grenade-Willis's Prairie Crocus inhabits the all-too overlooked in-between of seasons, bursting with quiet, deliberate certainty. Like an illuminator, Grenade-Willis scans the planet for evidence of scintillation—soil and roots, sun and moon—and with them colors the inner-ear. Hers is a gravitational assurance. Prairie Crocus is verse at home in the body of time. Earth also breathes.

Prairie Crocus (The Lune No. 9) is Grenade-Willis's first collection of poems. Her short-form works have been published in a variety of spaces, including the first three collaborative iterations of The Lune. Her language stuns us softly into simultaneous appreciation for abundance and scarcity.