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Submitted to Contest #320
The Flexing of Predator Feet The merlin was an abrupt, low-slung presence beside her as it fell from the tree and belly-skimmed the sand before her. Wasn’t that just the way of murderous things, she thought, appearing fast and out of nowhere? She paused, sorry to have startled it, hoping that it hadn’t sat with too much tension before deciding flight was the safer thing. The coastal road curved just here, the tiny beach an abutment and her arrival, wrapped in a flapping blue blanket as she was, probably seemed monstrous. The bird had been ...
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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