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Month: December 2020

A Letter From Our Editor

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020December, 2020

“The stuff of the world is knit—out of chaos in the first place”—Cleveland Wall, “Tiny Letters” Here it is, the week before Thanksgiving in the…

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Kindred Spirit

Cricket Lesso

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

Little bird,your heart beats fastagainst the glassof the closed windowinside my porch.Hold still.My warm handswrap around you.I turn,take one step, two.In the open doorway,I slowly…

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On Finding Out My Wife Wants to Shave Her (Almost) Invisible Mustache

Jean-Luc Fontaine

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

Only when sweat spatters              the thin blonde tips, can I spot it—               …

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Post Script

John Berry

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

It used to be the afterthoughtat the end of a letterthat final smirk of wit, that wistfultraveler meandering late to the fair. That was when…

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Rain Turns to Snow

Katie Budris

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

Like the last dayI would see you. Smiling— Wheels skidding on iceas I push you from parking lot to in-patient. Your handsuddenly becomes a child’s…

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Tennessee Waltz

Cricket Lesso

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

I dance the Tennessee Waltzwith Charlie,Old Charlie Blue Eyesin his thick tan sneakers.I hold him under the armsas we waltz, stiffly,two paces from his wheelchair.His…

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Tiny Letters

Cleveland Wall

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

I wrote them on adding-machine paper with ballpoint pen. I was always at it.Even before the reply to the last had comeI was crafting the…

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Tipping Point

Larry Pike

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

That frigid Saturday midnightmy mother’s car rolledout of the garageafter me because I failedto park four wheelson the plane of cementthen compounded my errorby leaving…

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Horse Drawn Buggies and Flying Cars

K. Rae Haight

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

We didn’t know what that meant – the future.  Every time you said that word, we thought of rocket ships and flying cars.  Living on…

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A Night Funeral

Rebekah Reisig

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

He wanted a nighttime funeral. We thought he was joking. Connor didn’t have a will. He wasn’t the sort to plan ahead. His days were…

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Can You Please Keep Up?

Carl A. Taylor

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

You were peaked well before Millinocket, and I shouldn’t have missed the signs. But in truth, I didn’t miss them after all, but ignored. I…

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Tabled

Darrell Parry

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020

I sympathizewith the dining room table.The one that’s too big for the space it occupies.You have always taken care of itbecause you use it everyday,but…

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After the Catch

J.B. Stone

by River & SouthPosted onDecember, 2020December, 2020

—there was no release                                    no parade     …

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