In The Beginning – Carolina Torres & Laine Derr

We created honey.
We created the passion of a gentle breeze.
We created golden daffodils in bloom.
We created the book of yellow-breasted birds.
We created a child who loves the taste of morning dew.
We created the color of caramel skin.
We created days of rest.


Laine Derr holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Work has appeared or is forthcoming from LIT Magazine, The Amistad, Full Bleed + The Phillips Collection, ZYZZYVA, Portland Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

Carolina Torres is a Biologist and Public Health researcher who enjoys the arts and literature. As a scientific author, she has published in peer-reviewed journals within the biomedical field. Her writing, mostly prose, is a practice for spiritual reflection.

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