Tag: 52.2

Inheritance

Rebecca Faulkner I am trying to remember —  corners of your newspaper curled  in a November breeze, mothballs  in your herringbone tweed. Stubborn  grief, my coat pulled tight....

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All Bleeding Eventually Stops

Leslie Doyle My youngest brother, Jim, is looking really weird up there at the altar right now. Rocking on his heels nervously but also yawning like he’s about to fall asleep. As if he’d just...

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French Sardines

Rosa Lane After Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!” (249)              French sardines arrive from Boston, tin- plated. Maggie levers her can...

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How I love this world

Gretchen Filart           after Mary Oliver’s In Blackwater Woods I love this world  as I do my daughter at bedtime – skinned knees from sprinting  before she...

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