A Quiet Root

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

“Haloween” by Brendan Bense

I often think about what it means to raise a child
today, what it meant twenty years ago, when my dad rose
without saying anything and instead opened
my bedroom door to let the cold in, the light in

Read it in Variant Literature

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