Bird to Bird After Neruda Muhammed was pensive and withdrawn as a child, my brother’s scars elsewhere. Cocaine use can cause purpura of the face, ears, trunk and extremities. Why don’t they say bruising all over one’s body? The trunk of the car contained: Thirty-three coiled jump ropes with fleur-de-lis painted on their wooden handles. […]| DODGING THE RAIN
Trip into Town Ancient oaks against a cloudless sky, each bright green leaf new to the world; no small dark deaths on the roadside, just rippled grass and yellow flowers, and then, lifting my heart, a bald eagle rides the wind with such easy grace that the alarm I live with feels foolish, wrong, until […]| DODGING THE RAIN
As teachers, we don’t have the time we’d like to read submissions during the school year, meaning our typical turnaround is 3-6 months. This is a long time to wait for many, so we now offer fast-tr…| DODGING THE RAIN
2 posts published by Dodging the Rain during August 2025| DODGING THE RAIN
We Arrive the line for the carwash snakes through the parking lot windows down, blasting music at each other to say we’re still alive over here, how about you a cacophony of exultation, we touch each other carefully like glass ornaments full of color and light we now know how fragile we are, don’t we […]| DODGING THE RAIN
HER DECIBELS I cried after computing her decibelsof what must have been a petite thudthat morning, figuring in the time difference for her father on the coast,whom she saw in credits that rolled at…| DODGING THE RAIN
We have to make it 5/18/25 It feels like August will wound everyone, that the courts will fold completely, those executions will continue to rise that my thirst will change a third time & the moaning of an army of goats will be called music in a terrified silence. It’s not helpful to think of […]| DODGING THE RAIN
broken summer night when the day’s heat rose to night skywith moon, vain and aloof the tenant somehowknew no phone would ringno door would knock and so she gathered the folds of her long flounceand…| DODGING THE RAIN
Visiting the bust of Nefertiti in Berlin I just want to tell you that I understand you,sir, stunned as you are under this domewhich is like the inside of an eye. Youknow there is a lining on which the eyeball sitsthose floating things you can swim outto, like those, or like a glass ornamentif it […]| DODGING THE RAIN
Fighting the Easterly The women tell me about a loyal husbandor brother, or sonhe snuck under police taperushed up the back stepsto the sound of wavestimpani on granite blockswind a wild crescendo…| DODGING THE RAIN
Tablecloth we arrive early at the museum of your lifeand start in the book exhibitionwhere Vera Brittain and George Eliot sitin dust and well-thumbed covers we work mostly in silenceexcept for the …| DODGING THE RAIN
