Amy Dryansky

1 month ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Amy Dryansky |Jim Culleny

AmberInside the sugar maples' locked branches something clear has begun to come loose; it will be caught, held,plied with intense heat. I pity the pink tips of those branches, their forced march in the darkbefore the clocks catch up. And I pity myself, swaddled bones scraping food from the same black pot. I hear the maples, their drip.

Nov 2, 2023 | thesunmagazine.org | David Mahaffey |Bethany Marcel |Amy Dryansky |Doug Ramspeck

Can we learn to live with fire? It’s an odd question for humans to ask, since our development is intricately tied to combustion. Our Homo erectus ancestors likely used open flames to make food easier to digest, fueling the growth of their brains, as well as to stay warm, ward off predators, and eventually create communities. Fire has been a catalyst for technological advancement, too, from the kilns and forges of the Bronze Age to the rockets that send modern tourists into space.

Oct 6, 2023 | swwimmiami.substack.com | Amy Dryansky

On this the most holy of days I wish I wasn’t writing my sins on the back of my kid’s Learner’s Permit, though I suppose it’s appropriate for what am I to God, to anyone to the people I love and hurt and love but a student, perpetually sharpening her pencil blowing off the gray dust spiral of shavings? I know an artist who did that. Worked hour   after hour to produce a spiraling pencil’s worth of unbroken yellow. A strange beauty that undoing.