how to lie on your back underwater and not drown your fool self"... even water / and its delicate warm hands could ruin you."
poetry
Leah Tuckwiller
Poet, editor, cat parent. West Virginia-born, Tennessee-living, red pen-carrying.
Knoxville, TN, United States
Selected work (4 publications)
Next Time For Suresticking your head in a lake is a reset button, actually
oh revelationaloh charm of the woods, oh stillness
as it settles into frozen limbs,
oh patience of the night.
Easy Bake CovenIt dug its claws in, hissing and swearing and, finally, snapping its bony little fingers.
We all seemed, very suddenly, to be lifted into the air and pinned bodily to the ceiling.
“Fine,” the imp spat, “deal with it yourselves, see if I care!”
short fiction