Katherine Quevedo
Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where…
Sea Grass Supplication originally appeared in The Curator Magazine
I wish I could pray like sea grass,
near-silent with the power
to slice ocean gusts downto breezes, warm
their frigidity,comfort the weary
whose paths in lifecross mine. Sea grass
waves in joyoussupplication,
spindly pale fingers,dark wrists of root,
unaware of its vast reach—a triumph
of quiet insistence.
Katherine Quevedo
Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. She is the author of the Elgin Award-winning poetry chapbook The Inca Weaver’s Tales (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024) and the fantasy novella Thrice Petrified (Of Metal and Magic Publishing, 2025). Her poems have been nominated for the Rhysling Award and Pushcart Prize and appear in Asimov’s, HWA Poetry Showcase, Apparition Literary Magazine, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, and elsewhere.
