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“The heart grows brutal with things / disguised as themselves”—Emily Wolahan
Spring 2017
Poetry by Adam Clay, Ama Codjoe, Primož Čučnik, Karyna McGlynn, Phillip Sterling, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Emily Wolahan, and others; essays by Laura Sewell Matter, Andrew Menard, and Steven Moore; fiction by John Bensko, David Huddle, Becky Mandelbaum, Jerry McGahan, Melissa Pritchard, and Doug Ramspeck. Art by Erin McIntosh.
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Congratulations to Sean P. Smith!
Winner of the 2017 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award for
The Slow and Tender Death of Cockroaches
Featured
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Little Double-Barrel
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Her grandmother’s shotgun came to Ms. Hicks by way of her brothers, Tommy and Jack. They insisted she take the thing, she was pretty sure, because A) it was the one weapon of the family’s collection they least wanted and B) they were amused at the idea of her having to own it. . . .
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All Lines of Order
The Boquillas Trail is located in a remote corner of Big Bend National Park in Texas. It begins with several long steps sloping gently upward, followed by a number of shorter, . . .
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Hit It
You don’t have to believe in the Devil
to end up with him. God’s not so easy.
Say God takes the form of an egret. . . .
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Self-Portrait with Braid
In the morning my eyes look thirsty
like a willow leaning toward
its reflection. My mother waits
inside the circles. . . .
