" Leaving Papa" was first published in Kaleidotrope, and was nominated for a 2014 Rhysling Award.Leaving PapaSomething in the gaze of ten thousand blackbirdslays the mighty forest bare,& the woodsman cannot even rememberthe names of his childrenwho are running towards the nearest roadwith thorns in their hands.They shout in a broken tongue,sense that time is either unwindingor trying to reinvent itself.They hear their late mother's voiceamid the…
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