About All Ways Open is a publication aiming to tell small stories about place: stories about pigeons and mountain ranges, stories both real and imagined. It's an experiment in opening writing outwards, directing readers towards visual histories and archives. We aim to think in triplicate: to consider past / present / future, visual / written / read, self / friend /community. We consider arrangments loosely, allowing threads to tangle segments together.

All Ways Open is open for submissions.

Circuitousness of a Sunrise

Amber Albritton

after Helen [Norship] sitting among wildflowers, Big Bald, North Carolina by Roger Howell

In my play wet plums daisy chains

my longing into the wide azure defender

backdrop sunned granite broken

rocks  the fortitude of youth arms wide

circle circle circle  me once more

before you go.