air quality index 200 and the blessings over wine, spice, and candles are followed by grief ritual dedicated to climate. i, like emergency room nurses detached from loss, felt little registering this new notch cut from the great global tree. only in september did it hit me, my anxiety building until grief became a relief […]

Author Archives: Bridget Saunders Vial
Bridget Saunders Vial lives in Southwest Detroit. They took to poetry as a form of dialogue, addressing most poems, lately, to their friend Lex. ‘AQI 200’ emerged from a text thread on despair.