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You invented me, my maker—built me out of clockworks and gears,the Eve of my kind, the first metal foot on the Earth.A marvel, a myth come to life. I reread...
The Galatea
You invented me, my maker—built me out of clockworks and gears,the Eve of my kind, the first metal foot on the Earth.A marvel, a myth come to life. I reread...
Tracy May Adair holds a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. She works...
Wormhole
Tracy May Adair holds a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. She works...
Yes. I ran away.I didn’t bring her in.I’m sorry, General.But before you have them run me through,Just let me explain. I’m not a real good talker.Not like your silver-tongued senators,Or...
Disobedient
Yes. I ran away.I didn’t bring her in.I’m sorry, General.But before you have them run me through,Just let me explain. I’m not a real good talker.Not like your silver-tongued senators,Or...
pyrus communis If cultivated to sweeten their tongue,they grow us staked or caged, hairlesstwigs and leaves, starred and starved core, lengthening and ripening fruitproof we would become whateverthey required. If...
On the Edge of Stone-Mountain
pyrus communis If cultivated to sweeten their tongue,they grow us staked or caged, hairlesstwigs and leaves, starred and starved core, lengthening and ripening fruitproof we would become whateverthey required. If...
Choosing a feline form, gray tabby.Demon spirit seeps into sinew,Commandeering the warm flesh. Now, I may move among you … Sucking the creamy breath,From the infant’s fresh-formed lungs,Grinning as the...
The Familiar
Choosing a feline form, gray tabby.Demon spirit seeps into sinew,Commandeering the warm flesh. Now, I may move among you … Sucking the creamy breath,From the infant’s fresh-formed lungs,Grinning as the...
I. Do doors open by themselves? Drawers? Closets? Is it autumn, and are the leavesspiraling outside in tiny twisters? Remember, wind can often move heavy objectslike wooden doors or picture...
How to Know If Your House Is Haunted and What to Do
I. Do doors open by themselves? Drawers? Closets? Is it autumn, and are the leavesspiraling outside in tiny twisters? Remember, wind can often move heavy objectslike wooden doors or picture...