Jessica Bailey

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“We Walk Left Of What Is Holy” by Jessica Bailey

Submitted to Contest #191

WE WALK LEFT OF WHAT IS HOLY  I’ve driven ten hours and thirty-one predatory roadside red-tailed hawks to talk to a man about pain, and words, and why he messaged me- a stranger- to say only that I must remain close to the birds. My world has grown progressively more southern; more salty, more sodden, slow. The urgent hum of miles under tires has drifted away on a honeyed wind that my body moves through like lovers’ time. I’ve hidden myself away in a hefty mossy oak, a tiny house built into her arms like her child, ho...

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