ZOMBIE

In your three-piece suit and your tuxedo shoes
you're dressed as if to go, but in your coma
you do not come or go. The wife you left
has come down from the mountain to give
you a matching ring of glass. Your doll-sized
daughter has brought you a kelp flower
that smells of salt to pin to your lapel.
Into your welmish eye, she says
the world
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—Thomas Heise, from Horror Vacui

Ryan Van Meter's If You Knew Then What I Know Now is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award.

Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City is shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

07-08-2012
The Children

The Frost Place Box 74 Franconia, NH 03580
Reading from The Children as part of the annual "Frost Day" celebration


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