The Palimpsest Review - Volume 10

Palimpsest onLine!'s Professional Writers at Work

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Sarah Etter: “Concaves”

Marissa Molina: "The Day I Wasn’t There"

Andrew Timberlake-Newell: "Smokie"

Anthony Kocur: "To the Edge"

David Kim: "Young and Perverted"

Ryan Morini: "B – Movie Enthusiast"

Joe Giachero: "Whatever Came First"

Meghan Elliott: "Sound"

Veronika L Daddona: "Driver" and "Lamentia"

Ronell Smith: "The 1988 Holiday Barbie"

Charles Howells: "Bandwagon Patriots"

Andrew Noll: "Ten Feet Behind J.F.K."

Sarah E. Smith: "Autumn Skies"

Daniel Debiec: "A Morning in Missoula" and "into the rain"

Ryan Melling: "Hand in Hand"

Andraleen Zelonis: "Let’s Play"

Kevin Cope: "House Guest"

Becky Liscusky: "I Like Dogs and Frogs" and "You know the pan’s hot"

Amber Shinskie: "Scent of a Cherry Cigar"

Zachary Bricker: "Bedtime Story"

 

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Daniel Debiec – Berks

   A Morning in Missoula

Autumn crept through the countryside in the morning;
She is a fox—swift, sly, smooth,
Flying through Missoula,
In the arms of the Great Northern winds,
Bushy tail held high,
Painting the landscape—all between earth and sky,
Deep, deep red,
Deep, deep red and sun-drop yellow,
Sun-drop yellow to a lonely brown,
A blanket of white.
Anna watched her slip through the countryside,
From her bed and out through the window,
Her I.V. held high,
Voices echoed from the hallway— “any day now,
Any day now she’ll …”