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CAST BY ANITA CABRERA
The hawk, blatant and in-your-face, all hot shot soaring and swooping, angling against an optimum backdrop for accentuating his best features, doing the whole hah, hah, hah, my wingspan is bigger than yours thing,...
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GRANDFATHER BIGHEART BY JERI GRIFFITH
JERI GRIFFITH lives and works in Brattleboro, Vermont, after stints in Boston and Austin, Texas....
Read MoreSTORY LIKE A DOG BY LOIS MARIE HARROD
If a man gets a dog
in his head–say a stray hound,
a cerebral bitch–should he throw
her a bone? Should he invite her in?
IN DEFENSE OF SQUIRRELS BY LOIS MARIE HARROD
Wasn’t it just their version
of crucifixes in urine, we understood the necessity
for artistic impulse, and, yes, we believed in nature too,
that it should be allowed its freedom,
FURNISHED ROOMS, Wendy Jones
Thought you knew I was married, man. Have a wife and a daughter. Still married–on paper. Been almost seven years since we been together. Haven’t seen either of them since. But I still think about her, my daughter, I mean.
Read MoreTHE KUDZU EXPLAINS BY LOIS MARIE HARROD
I have been frightened
since I was born
the sun would fall
so I set out baskets
THE LEAF BY RICHARD LEBOVITZ
The leaf had come to the end of its journey.
I was there when it relinquished its grip
and began its aerobatic descent
ELEGY WITH STRINGS ATTACHED BY LOIS MARIE HARROD
This morning
the leaves of the oak
glitter like wind
on a watery dawn
AT LAST BY RICHARD SALE
Like the chicken ruffling in her dust bath I have moments when I revel in my old age and decrepitude, when someone helps me put on my overcoat, when I relish the sheen on my Malacca cane, when no one mistakes my politeness for...
Read MoreTHIS STUDY, THIS COLD STRANGE STUDY BY LOIS MARIE HARROD
like Auden telling his prep school boys
to write an essay with a lie in every sentence,
I tell you this:
SPRING SNOW BY STEPHEN ULLOM
They will melt in time
as all things do,
bending to that tired but relentless god
