Bat Country
The following originally appeared in Granta 63: Beasts. It is re-printed here with full permission from the
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Of Vice and Men: a Killing
A paved road in rural Oklahoma; on either side, miles of rolling grassland, the grass tall and pale with autumn. My
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A Stiller Ground
I walked in graveyards, gathering trash and fallen branches. I pulled weeds that obscured the names on old headstones
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Two Ways of Looking at a Turkey Vulture
One: After work one day, I lay on the couch beneath the picture window. Outside, the Siberian elms tossed their
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The Mummy of John Wilkes Booth
"My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth A bird that will revenge upon you all." — William
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Hope
In the woods, in the deep hole I dug, beneath the power cable and the roots of box elder trees, down among the
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