Prose from Poetry Magazine

Elemental Gratitude

BY Eric Gansworth

Originally Published: June 01, 2018
Fantasy illustration featuring gold medallion, fire, and lightning.
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Elemental Gratitude: Worlds without End, 2009, by Eric Gansworth.

Fantasy illustration featuring a woman and a man wearing sunglasses, a halved brain, and text reading "The Corpus Callosum allows for / communication between the seat / of reason and the land of / DREAMS"
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Elemental Gratitude Earth: Bridge between Reason and Dreams, 2009, by Eric Gansworth.

Fantasy illustration featuring two men, one from the a past century, one from present time. An abstract purple whale partially covers their faces.
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Elemental Gratitude Water: Neuron Escaped Alone to Tell, 2009, by Eric Gansworth.

Fantasy illustration featuring a woman and a man, a large bee, and postage stamps.
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Elemental Gratitude Air: Space between Atlas and Axis, 2009, by Eric Gansworth.

Fantasy illustration of a man with a long scar down his stomach. Handwritten words on the wall on the background read "WE HAVE NO CLAN FOR FIRE".
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Elemental Gratitude Fire: We Have No Clan, 2009, by Eric Gansworth.

Fantasy illustration featuring a man wearing a futuristic suit. Spheres in space are in the background.
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Elemental Gratitude: Secret Origins Story, 2009, by Eric Gansworth.

Eric Gansworth, Sˑha-weñ na-saeˀ (Onondaga), born and raised at Tuscarora Nation, works at Canisius College. He has published eleven books of poetry, prose, and visual art, most recently Give Me Some Truth (Scholastic, 2018).

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