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Episodes

1. 10

   Backyard Event

   (with a chorus for jays and bees) by Rosemary Starace The rosemary spills from the clench of the pot the flux and the sex of a gravelly musk. Necessity sniffs at those ravels of leaves and leaves her with flowers, cerulean, mute. In the spice and the peace of the sprawl of the morning, her […]

   Jun 11, 2013
2. 9

   Foxes

   by Tammy Ramsey Each night against city ordinance she serves up dinner. The foxes prefer bread; raccoons, peanuts. Possum will eat anything except cucumbers, which will lie in the yard untouched by any animal until sun and decomposition take them away. She began counting in July, keeping coded...

   Jun 11, 2013
3. 8

   Intercession

   by Kristin Camitta Zimet Cages stuffed with finches swung in bunches at the shrine on the jammed Bangkok street, and on a bench below them sat a girl, sunken-eyed, lap crammed with jewels she put on only when passersby would pay to make her dance their prayer up before the god. She shrank, lips...

   Jun 10, 2013
4. 7

   Playing Chicken

   by Betsy Packard She nests in a sprawling tulip poplar on a street of rental properties, fast cars and fire crackers peopled by many colors and tongues. She scolds me if the dogs and I venture too closely. Yet I anticipate her dashes for acorns, pine cones, pizza crusts and potato chips. An adept...

   Jun 10, 2013
5. 6

   At a Traffic Light

   by Warren Baker I look up from my phone to see a gray fox dart across the road, its black-tipped tail sticking straight out, running from the remains of a meal scavenged from garbage, a primeval agenda set by a forebear who crossed this then-dirt road with the warm body of a Rhode Island Red […]

   Jun 7, 2013
6. 5

   Animals

   by Liz N. Clift When the first goat came into Jasper’s — it walked on its hind legs — we thought it was a joke, something we could talk about at our day jobs. When the second one came in, we stopped scattering topping on pizzas, and stared. We watched Tina, the hostess, look flustered […]

   Jun 7, 2013