January 21, 2017. Oh Future Reader, Will You Know This Date?
By Laura Lee Washburn
Because I was in a car driving at the highway speeds cars drive, I saw the fire and I saw the tree. Remember the camp …
January 21, 2017. Oh Future Reader, Will You Know This Date?
By Laura Lee Washburn
Because I was in a car driving at the highway speeds cars drive, I saw the fire and I saw the tree. Remember the camp … Continue reading→
Conversation
By Laura Lee Washburn
It’s just money
It’s just legislation
It’s just sexism, just bullying
just knowing scapegoating.
Show me the damn sheep,
bouncing lamb, the peacock
announcing heaven.
The refuge of art
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Peace and Reckoning
By Laura Lee Washburn
i. Of Whom to Beware
Every English teacher has a brother with a gun,
somebody who goes out Thanksgiving for a duck.
The teachers sit home with red pens, or … Continue reading→
The Eldest Son
By Laura Lee Washburn
journeyed to seek his fortune. His parents
wished him well, had even offered him home,
but he must go and so he did until a kingdom
with the weeping … Continue reading→