The Woman Who Wonders over the Potting Shed Over the Kitchen Window

Paul Dickey

There may have been even slaughter in our own neighborhood.
I watch the snow all the winter while shiny metal reflects a light
over locks when he has been opened and time again as if it
was polished, where it should have been rust. I would tell the
girls, if I knew. For all of us, perhaps for caution. But surely it
is only garden tools. But the fact, I do not know. He does not
want her to know. I do not want to know.

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Paul Dickey has appeared mostly recently in Plume, The Midwest Quarterly, Laurel Review, and Apple Valley Review. Dickey has published over 200 online and print publications, including poetry, short stories, flash fiction, plays, and essays. His most recent book of poetry is "Anti-Realism in Shadows at Suppertime."

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