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Author Archives: Caleb Curtiss

Ghost ||| from THRUSH Poetry Journal

April 22, 2015

Caleb Curtiss

My sister thinks she is a ghost: at work, in her car, at home fixing herself a slice of toast for breakfast or blow drying her hair in her bathroom mirror, pausing from time to time to recite in her … Continued

Swans as a Scourge

February 10, 2014

Caleb Curtiss

  I heard once that after doing the math on Bruges Hitler determined that it was too far off for him to bomb, and so instead, he sent them a flock of swans— a flock of swans as a scourge, … Continued

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