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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ethan Goffman

One Man’s Trash As I emptied the trash, a trove of glasses slipped into the garbage bag’s gaping mouth. “Hey,” I asked my wife, “have you thrown out my old glasses”? “They were just sitting in a heap,” she said. “Some of them must have been decades old.” It was true, I had left themContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ethan Goffman”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter

What Told Me You Were Dead What told me you were dead that Friday morningwas a loaf of bread.As I wheezed down your street I swore,well you hadn’t answered my messages and apart from each other who else had we to call?So I had set out…But when, in the just arrived morning light I couldContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Marc Olmsted

Busted Busted the zipper on my jeans, fatso blue hair fading growing out grey-black beard already snowy – 66 maybe 20 years left. “We’re building a community of health and wellness” – the billboard promises – while here comes Homeless Dirty Hands with his label’d Zombie Survival Kit bag Was the girl in the faux snowContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Marc Olmsted”