A Quiet Root

We comb through hundreds of literary magazines to bring you one stellar poem or flash fiction piece every weekday.

“Grateful Birds” by Ashley Steineger

The jackhammer outside the Marlton sings sweet as the ovenbird
whose call was described as pure clusterfuck by the professor

in my late-bloomer-lesbian birdwatching club.

Read it in The Lumiere Review

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