“Stone Fruit” by Jamie Cattanach
A boy in the desert painted my picture once. He was living in a tent. There was snow on the ground, but he’d taken…
A boy in the desert painted my picture once. He was living in a tent. There was snow on the ground, but he’d taken…
Curses linger, so Kalki moves. Movement traces the long edges of her memory, a personal rain cloud hovering over her, reminding her that it…
Horse loves the beaver and its habit of / reengineering the entire ecosystem. Horse sees in the beaver’s efforts a reflection / of her dreams, her goals, and her work ethic. This is a fiction.
My wife Deedra waves her hands at the other end of the Delaware County Public Library to get my attention. It isn’t an easy…
Read MoreGolden sunlight bears the heat of tempered metal when I land at Norman Manley, and all the protection I have is the small shadow…
Read MoreToday is surgery day. Yesenia wakes up two minutes before her alarm goes off. Bailey is still sleeping, curled into a fetal position. Her…
Read MoreJackson enjoys a good ghost story as much as anyone else, he explains to Devon after they look at the house. He’s just not…
Read MoreMy mother never left her high school / science class bored to rub one out / in the stall of the girl’s room.
Read MoreI know some people walk backwards through their death into the room they left. / Who told them to do that? Nobody.
Read MoreI suffer at your hands / and their absence.
Read MoreShe read for the host / the voice of a person who’d died alone…
Read Moreafter all pegasus was born / from the blood of the gorgon / and my moods dom me when I sing
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