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Burials

Here’s a first, he said, some nutbag wants to dig the grave himself.

Buried Voices

The story doesn’t begin until the van breaks down, I always say.

Burning Cold

Jimmy’s jacket, mittens, and shirt were in a pile next to his frozen body.

But I Digress . . .

The store was one of his last-ditch efforts to make a pile of money.

By Hand

Ed McClanahan

By Slow Degrees

We ate and then made love, the windows open to deafening twilight.

Ca Dao

I returned to Vietnam with a tape recorder to collect ca dao.

Caliche and Other Poems

The exurban dream of it all, to enter is to have the ability to exit.

Cancer, You Scare Me

I decided to go for the least lousy choice and have the surgery.

Captain Brown

Somehow, Captain Brown made himself respected in Cranford.

Career Change

The mortician who painted our girl was not a somber-suited officiant.

Cartoon Art Volume 2010-05

See no evil, hear no evil, speak
no evil, eat a banana.

Cartoon Art Volume 2011-09

New cartoons from Rina Piccolo, J. C. Duffy, Bob Eckstein, and more!

Cartoon Art Volume 2013-01

New cartoons from Glen LeLievre, Liza Donnelly, and more!

Cartoon Art Volume 2013-05

Cartoon Art Volume 2013-06

Cartoon Art Volume 2014-02

Glen Le Lievre

Cartoon Art Volume 2015-07

Cartoon Art Volume 2015-08

Cartoon Art Volume 2015-09

Cartoon Art Volume 2015-11

Cartoon Art Volume 2017-03

Cartoon Art Volume 2017-06

Cartoon Art Volume 2018-01

Cartoon Art Volume 2021-04

Catfish

Complicity can crease the tongue back on itself like an origami dog.

Catfish Heads on a Clothesline

I’m the shrunken dead like them, here, greening the sky’s bluer potion.

Cemetery

On the anniversary of your death, a memory sharpens, as if illuminated.

Certain Friends for Certain Secrets

It was like a scene in a movie; it didn’t seem real. The man kicked her.

Charm for a Spring Storm

I am tamping down the earth with the flat side of a blade I am burying you