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Blackbird

in Poetry on December 14, 2013 February 5, 2020

Over the furrows of the northern field— a coded flash of blackbird wings. Memory bursts from the hedgerows: a pair of girls in skirts and knee socks and weed-flowered hair, a fawn decomposing in the…

The Camera

in Nonfiction on December 13, 2013 February 5, 2020

An excerpt… Twenty odd years before and that truck was there for best friend. Pete. When I say I truly loved him, it means just that. I truly loved him. We was like brothers without…

Quiet

in Poetry on December 13, 2013 February 5, 2020

A few months ago, near the end of the summer, we stood chatting over the fence, far in the back by the old shed with the paint peeling from the door, a hoe in your…

Echocardiography

in Nonfiction on December 12, 2013 February 5, 2020

I lifted my three-year-old daughter, Willa onto my shoulders, and then we continued up the hill to take in the view of the Georgia pines and perhaps spot a deer, or the great-horned owl that…

Betrothal of the Virgins

in Art and Photography on December 6, 2013 February 5, 2020

This artwork appears in our Fall 2013 issue (Vol. 60.1)