Six O’Clock Mine Report by Irene McKinney
“Maybe because I am married and felt secure and dead
at once”
from “Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia“
Benediction and Baseball by Ed Werstein
“But still, I stayed within the lines
could never find the proper color
for defiance like theirs.”
from “Casablanca Colorized”
The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
“A thing both fragrant and foul. A lily and a man’s brain bound together in one body.”
from “Windfall.”