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COOPER'S STORY
Bridget Grieve-Carlson

 

"All day, since church, he has felt a wanting building up in him, a restless wanting. It feels as though, as he lies there, it has started to slip into the veins of his body and mingle into his bones. It is a wanting nothing he can buy can settle."

 

 

"Buying food became a chump’s game. Bullets
were for buffalo and deer. Forget the squirrels."

 

 

“For all the TV shows that seek ghosts, 
for all their cameras and audio gear. 
For all the Squatchers and Yeti hunters. 
For all the tinfoil hats in the world
protecting against Illuminati lizard people.”

 

Volume XLI

Art:  "Catkin Flora" by J. Wayne Fitzgerald.  Measuring 15" x 23", mono-print, embellished with watercolor, on rag paper, mixed media, January, 2016.