unless it was for my sister’s father, and oldest brother’s, the son of a bitch who left her for another woman so alone in Hector, Arkansas that she found the arms of my father just a few weeks later. Sister, the fist of your anger has bolted shut. I never knew the loneliness of a […]
Mary Alice MacDonald
Mary Alice MacDonald is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet published in Rust + Moth, The Dead Mule, and Rising Phoenix Review, and a recipient of the Leon V. Driskell award. She lives in the Tar River basin area of North Carolina with her cat, Libby.