by Rita May Reese | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
After Michael Ondaatje King Midas Driving to Birmingham, she tells you the story of King Midas—how when he was cursed with donkey ears he swore his barber to secrecy. It was too much for the barber so he dug a hole deep in the woods and whispered into it: King Midas...
by Austin Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When I walked into the forestof camouflage, faces turned,gleaming through the leaveslike tin plates hungamongst trees for targets. In a moment of silence,the eyes darted birdlikemeasuring what had wandered in. Then the forest broke apartinto forms, voices,...
by Judy Kolosso | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Our hospital conversation turns to snow and bitter cold, how it is the same this year as when we walked to school, snow way up over our galoshes, how it made those red rings where leg and boot came together. He remembers snowbound days, our impassible driveway when he...
by Kathleen Dale | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Molecules of our bodies only lightlybind, allow for life by not releasing,in their coupling, enough heat to burnthemselves to ashes, allow for death by easilylosing interest, and unlinking. What allows us to live permits us to die,so we never really fasten.Marriage,...
by Tom Boswell | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When my last lover went, she left her long brown braids in the dresser drawer so I hung them from the garden fence to scare the deer away.
