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Melissa Cannon

Poetry

Winter 1995

Grandma to Little Red

By Melissa Cannon

I know each time you set out on a stroll your mother yammers, “Careful! Don’t stray off the path. Beware—that forest’s one big trough of dangers, home to beasts; I […]

Poetry

Winter 1995

Imagine Danger

By Melissa Cannon

Imagine danger as a way of life—not stunts with flaming hoops or racing cars but daily terrors of the bludgeoned wife, whole wardrobes made to cover secret scars. Not stunts […]