The Sweet Purple Scent of Wild Grapes Swimming in the Scantic River in the hot swarms of gnats and sweet purple scent of wild grapes: boys and girls splashing naked together, school looming a few weeks ahead. As the afternoon wanes we leap dripping and pink from the lukewarm fish-smelling current and dress and run off in creepy little gangs, boys sneering and girls aloof as if we didn’t know each other, going home to hot dogs and beans. …
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The Magic & Poetry of Candle Making: An Interview with Trista Edwards of MARVEL + MOON
I met Trista Edwards through the magical and supportive community of Luna Luna Magazine, where she is an associate editor. I visited her shop, MARVEL + MOON, and was delighted to find that her candle making blends her love of literature with her practice as a witch. Then, when I read that her impulse to collect “tiny elemental memory markers,” such as “a feather from a Victorian-era cemetery, a little darkened soil from W.B. Yeats’s grave, a sprig of mint from a bush outside …
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