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PoetryThe Gardener
He had tended the garden pruning stems and branches with long-handled shears melded to his hands. He returned that winter, cradling a plant in…
PoetryShutters
Being the hybrids that we are, neither fully prey nor fully predator, we make our rounds each night, closing windows and locking doors. We are…
Poetryno reminders
the clench in my brain is like imagination on speed ghosts fly behind my back my mom's sweet white hair the door ajar her…
PoetryLife Supplies
—for Cheryl Leverette Life gets lost in the top right drawer of my desk. Those three pairs of scissors once purchased? Stuffed there way…
PoetryAgeless
in my eyes, we’re ageless in my eyes, each exploding star dust Pangeal atom that conspired in our conception has always existed we have…
PoetryPoem for Bobby
Let's unwind the world a little for you and the curly haired girl in your class. For your parents, your aunts, your cousins and…
PoetryPain Scale in the ER
She wants me to calibrate against the wing-beat of searing fluorescents, the examining room bright with her skeptical forbearance. I tell her since I've…
FictionGrowth on the Job
In the meantime, I'm here and they're not. I have learned one thing, because I get treated very unfairly, that's what I call it,…
PoetrySwamp Thing
It came from the depths of the sewhers of New York: Pasty faced Flaming orange hair Highlighted, feral raccoon eyes Swamp Thing Decades in…
PoetrySnapback
I tried to catch a snapping turtle in an old tin pail. She ducked and dove. I hopped and turned. It was to no…
PoetryI’m Heading South
As the days draw in I will head south, past the lake’s glacial blue, up the curving road where the mountain shines, beyond the…
PoetrySofter Truths in City Parks
I found them there in a still spare spring under cottonwoods grown in unnaturally straight lines in small-eyed ducks and a young girl balancing…