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Clay Matthews

Poetry

Spring 2013

The Deer Woods

By Clay Matthews

An empty tree stand and crushed beer cans below: imagine everything gone. You wake up one day and there is no face in the mirror. There is no mirror at […]

Poetry

Spring 2013

The Years

By Clay Matthews

Two-by-two. Autumn and winter. Summer and spring. Father and daughter on the right lane of a road. In the distance, an ocean, or the shore. Seagulls and laughter. When they […]

Clay Matthews

Clay Matthews has published poetry in journals such as American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. His most recent book, Pretty, Rooster (Cooper Dillon, […]