Anna Farro Henderson is a scientist and artist. She has a PhD in geology and has spent weeks and months of each year living in the wilderness. She is working on a novel and a weekly online collaboration, Science Love Letters. She lives along the Mississippi River in Minnesota. Her publications include Seneca Review (2012), Common (2013), Water~Stone Review (2014), Eckleburg Review (2014), Rumpus (2015), and forthcoming in the Normal School (Spring, 2016). She won a Loft Literary Mentor Series Award in 2010.
Fall 2016: The Poetics of Science
Spartina
Slow, sliding, smooth, shimmering, the river flows around my legs. I cross a flooded bridge and splash through the pink Maine dusk. The creek was dry this morning, but now my boots fill with water.