Steps by Kristen Baum DeBeasi

Editor’s note: Some of you may be familiar with Kristen’s brilliant refrigerator magnet poetry. I’m a huge fan, and am excited that Kristen is hard at work creating a chapbook of these astonishing poems—which FTM will be promoting! Enjoy this taste of her work. The image is by Kristen. (KW)

Kristen Baum DeBeasi’s poetry has appeared iBlue Heron Review, The Muleskinner Journal, Menacing Hedge and elsewhere. She is a Best of the Net nominee and was Moon Tide Press’s Poet of the Month for July 2021. When she isn’t writing words or music, she loves testing new recipes and collecting leaves or twigs for her fairy garden.