The Owl / The Rower

April 2011 | back-issues, poetry | 0 comments

by Megan Baxter The Owl I found one of the old night birds in the trees above the sugar house, starving, it refused the trap-killed mice I brought, hunter, whistling weight in the dark. I laid their bodies below the tree until I came upon him, frozen knocked from his perch by the…

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Issue 105, Jan 2023

Burrdowning Press

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Featuring: Issue 105, published January 2023, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by L. Ward Abel, Evan Anders, Nancy Connors, Diana Dinverno, Melissa Goodnight, Carol Hamilton, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Tess Kelly, Robert Knox , Bernard Knudsen, Kathy Kremins, Clare Marsh, Mary McGinnis, Dawn Miller, Michelle Morouse, Larena Nellies-Ortiz, Lorrie Ness, Robert Nisbet, John Perrault, Patrick T. Reardon, Lisa Rua-Ware, Michael Salcman, Rich Spang, Joshua St. Claire, Eugene Stevenson, Pamela Wax, Ann Weil, and Evan Morgan Williams.