Winter, Vol 18.1
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Caroline Fairey Meese edits composition and literature textbooks at W. W. Norton. Her poetry and prose can be found in storySouth, Jellyfish Review, Cardiff Review, and Noble / Gas Qtrly, among other publications. She has served as a prose editor at the Adroit Journal, a fiction reader at Ploughshares, a manuscript reader for Hub City Press and Lanternfish Press, and a workshop leader at 826michigan. She lives in Queens with her husband, though they also call South Carolina home.
sipèstisyon If people say your child is beautiful, your child will become ugly. ok, i confess. once, i said fuck you to danny perkins on the last day of kindergarten after a miserable year of being pu
I feel compelled to pick up the baby bird that has died just outside my doorstep this morning. Place her in my hand and rub her toothpick ribs with my thumb. Gently kiss the milky-blue bulbs of her ey
Hey, Future is that you / in the moment / a Buddhist might love / enough to hyperventilate / or the day’s dizzy spin /of 24 hours / kicking joy / to the curbs / of chaos / blessed by Hallmark’s / squa