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[danielriddlerodriguez]

EARTHBIND --Laura Post

He asks me casually if I ever want to get married, and I think about how I can't even stand guided tours.

A little girl at the top of the jungle gym shrieks, "Housekeeping!" imperiously at the children in the sandbox below.

Mira tells me her second day of medical school was a human dissection lab. While trying to make an incision, she looked down and realized she'd been holding the cadaver's hand.

I move to Ohio in another attempt to trap and release myself. I will do something ridiculous. I will do something.

Drinking beer and trying to split open an acorn squash, I drive thin white blade of a knife deep into my thumb.

What can love do in the hands of the fearful?

[carolgmpoetry]

A death/geometry poem and a helpful editor at Barnstorm Journal

A death/geometry poem and a helpful editor at Barnstorm Journal

I neglected to keep a good record of some of my publications and need them now in order to apply for a particular grant. I wrote Barnstorm Journal because I had difficulty using its search function and overnight received a kind note, an apology for the difficulty searching, and the url to my poem from 2013. So here it is! What a professional and generous editor, Charlotte Gross, an MFA student at…

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[mollitudo]

Their mother’s body obscured their view through the front door. “I’m very happy to have you both home for Thanksgiving,” she said. “I bought a beautiful turkey.” And then, “It’s too big for the fridge. I’m keeping it in the tub until tomorrow.”

“Ornithology” by Molly McArdle

I have a new story in Barnstorm!