Putting Food By
The achingly red Roma tomatoes / fill the bleached porcelain sink / like the bulbous detritus of summer. / The remnants of seed and skin / collide and float broken and hollow.
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The Somnambulist
Past the coffee table, its treacherous / corners; around the hushed ottoman; / pause in front of the flickering flat screen / as if I’d stepped right out of it. My family gapes.
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Three Poems
A quiet to these fields we called our place, / could almost hear the springs refeeding ponds, / fracked and gone with the deer and fox and grouse / thanks to the drilling’s thunder in the ground.
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Darwin’s Fox
When I was growing up in Ireland, magpies had an evil reputation. In contrast to our liking for robins, blackbirds, thrushes, and other common birds, magpies were reviled. They were considered rogues, condemned as the criminal element of the avian world.
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2 Poems
The Jaguar
As I enter the garage to lift weights, I hear a vicious roar. To my surprise, I find a turquoise jaguar sitting on the washer. I drop my water bottle and run back to the kitchen. I retrieve a birthday cake from the fridge, and throw it to the jaguar.
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4 Poems
Warhol & Kafka
Usually I obey the barking & thank an invisible God for invisible fences.
Dog whistles.
A bad batch of Molly, out of context, sounds so innocent.
What I was going to say is code for before you interrupted.
How to Be Alone in Florida
Back and forth, the waves sloshed in a steady rhythm–a calming musical accompaniment to the day.
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Review of ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE AND WHAT IT ALL MEANS by Carole Firstman
Dzanc Books. 263 pp. In the first chapters of her memoir, Origins of the Universe and What it all Means, Carole Firstman packs up her father’s old house. According to his specific instructions, she organizes boxes to send to him at his new home in Mexico, and while...
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Blurry Vision
She said she had seen a ghost, or a blurry vision, as she called it, behind our bedroom mirror.
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Two Poems
I am cleaning out a woman’s underwear drawer,
a woman who burned herself to death in the woods last week,
Announcing the Winners of the First Annual GMR Book Prize
The editors at Green Mountains Review are pleased to announce the winners of the first annual GMR Book Prize. Many congratulations to all the finalists! And congrats to the winners! The winning manuscripts will be published Fall 2016. PROSE Judged by Sarah Manguso...
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