Fording Calfkiller Creek


Our better days are ahead, buts he doesn't hear. The dog has tired us in circles.
We chose this leg, said we could stomach the foaming, the mean streak, said something about not minding the cold.
And isn't that just like us? I heard of a girl who set out to bury her brother, found she couldn't lift him, so lifted a knife to her body instead. It isn't the same thing at all. Now two bodies uninterred.

-Erica Wright

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