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Art, PoetryThe Minister’s Daughter
The technique is called blockout poetry, a type of found poetry. I used selected words from a page in one of Flannery O’Connor’s short…
PoetryChef vs. Waiter
come at me, Chef get yourself within my radius I warn you I’ve armed myself with a corkscrew and a ballpoint pen my cocktail…
PoetryAfter Crossing Bobtail Creek
There are voices in me so old, I cannot decipher. Like divers they speak to each other under water. They bubble up grains of…
PoetryIt’s been a half century since the fair
and I have given up naming cars, waist length hair and wishing for a horse. I do not believe I will live in a…
PoetryArtificial Intelligence
The last time at the office of the otolaryngologist I had smartly typed my next appointment promptly on my smart phone screen at the…
PoetryMeaning
Is it found in the thickets that line the paths through our minds, or in the simple words that form so easily out of…
PoetryHow to win an argument: lesson #17, Dad
it's an obscure ornithological fact the lifespan of a common hummingbird is 20 to 25 years and i know hummingbirds i feed them equal…
FictionSummer of Crows
The cawing started in the morning at no particular time, unlike the trills of songbirds that started at dawn. Instead, the cawing began with…
PoetryAnother Friday Night II
Rita calls. She's coming over for a girl's night-in because she likes the name of the wine— Yellow Tail. She says, I like tail,…
Poetrypeep show politics
don't look now we be at the bottom of the hole with the butterflies and pony shit they taught us to shoo gnats when…
Art, PoetryEverybody Swims/Lino Cut
She is so new, I am not sure which swimmer is her. With caps and goggles and sleek bodies, I am surrounded by porpoise…