Test

Joined August 2021

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Ringing
There is no silence like winter silence. At dawn the clipped birdsong, the live wires cut. There’s the glow that strains against the deafening nothing,
By Testabout a year ago in Poets
Agape
Silence is violence, has been from the beginning: I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper? Let your conscience speak, Effortless as it is, a guidepost of obligation.
By Testabout a year ago in Poets
Alabama Haint. Content Warning.
It comes through the window. A hole not punched but punctured, a clean wound, bleeding no shards. There is, remarkably, no shimmer of glass upon the rug.
By Testabout a year ago in Poets
January
She can’t see anything out of her right eye now. Soon enough she’ll be seeing angels, but they pretend for now, ignore the soft ominous brush of their feathery wings to laugh and drink their midday drinks with an old movie playing halfheartedly. Black and white, like the scenes from their memories.
By Test2 years ago in Fiction
Ascension
I knew blood from the moment I was born. Blood from my skinned knees: too spindly, too weak. Blood from the nettles in the field, the leeches in the creek, the baby teeth I lost in the dirt. Blood from the first mallard I killed with my father’s shotgun. Blood from that same father’s fists.
By Test4 years ago in Fiction