Catherine Arnold has an MFA in Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has spent many years painting, teaching, and roaming, and now lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and daughter.
This poem is from the collection, Measuring the Decibels of Light which explores the author’s experience of the world of autism, something through which she travels with her daughter. Recent work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review and The Cincinnati Review. Her paintings can be viewed at catherinearnold.com