Two fingers in the glass you gave me, not the good stuff but the okay stuff just in case. A panic attack tamped down as long as you don’t call again. It’s not about separating the broken parts out like chaff; that morning in the hotel is load-bearing trauma, the lies I wanted to believe […]
CL Bledsoe
Courtney Bledsoe is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry and fiction, including Riceland, The Bottle Episode, and Goodbye, Mr. Lonely. He cowrites the humor blog How to Even, with Michael Gushue. His own blog is Not Another TV Dad. Bledsoe was raised on a rice and catfish farm in eastern Arkansas and lives in northern Virginia with his daughter.