October 8, 2024
42nd parallel
clouds raptured with lightning at the 42nd parallel; bolt gun in the hog’s neck a sievefor wind to sever tendonsas the cottonwood felledthe power line for the last time. a […]
October 8, 2024
nebraska
The Kenyon Review · “nebraska” by ethan s. evans with a line from Drugstore Cowboycrossed half a continent to quitthis ceaseless thinking, milkweeds flurrying out of life by road’s edge, […]
October 8, 2024
Murmuration
Tupelo, MississippiI walk through a park off Natchez Trace:a field beside damp hiking trails that marks a Chickasaw village spot from the 1700s. Signs explain that a fort and family […]
October 8, 2024
Out in the Country
The Kenyon Review · “Out in the Country” by CD Eskilson Near Pontotoc, Mississippi Slept through church but still up too early loading tables and pans in your uncle’s truck. […]
October 8, 2024
Deer Head Hoop
The Kenyon Review · “Deer Head Hoop” by Kai Carlson-Wee The deer head hung from the basketball hoop. Blood coming down in frozen ropes. Tongue rolling out of the mouth […]
October 8, 2024
Goat’s Milk
You woke up one day, Little One, and looked at your large, strong hands, already as big as your brother’s, and said you wouldn’t have it. No way were you […]
October 8, 2024
Drought Diary
October 8, 2024
After We Wound the Land to Maps
after Franny ChoiBetter stewardship than ownership, but this wooded hill has neverneeded anyone. Without us, it stretched its green flanks feraluntil blackberry canes cracked under their own weight, deer trampedswitchback […]
October 8, 2024
Waiting, a Quintet
The Kenyon Review · “Waiting, A Quintet” by Kimberly Blaeser I. Pud The moment before things started to unravel, Norman Rockwell might have painted our rez playground — little brown kids in […]
October 8, 2024
’Roomers
As soon as Rory got out of prison, he was going mushroom hunting. Late April, and he knew morels would be popping up along the river. Of course, other people […]
October 8, 2024
Lyric Crisis
I wake with a texture-aversion to egg.On a list of to-dos my grandmother left:“Forgive [husband].”All afternoon I twistringlets of gray mosshanging from the boughs.Quiver at the very center of the […]
October 8, 2024
One Two
The Kenyon Review · “One Two” by Gabrielle Bates I straddle you on an old dirt floor in June,a rabbit filling her belly with white petals.When the pastor says “one […]