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The Robert Watson Literary Prize Poem PIG THERAPIST

I find myself with a wide prospect of Iowa.
Everything here is easy
to say, difficult to imagine. A horizon
of corn that tastes like yellow
wallpaper, and such are the reeds
around lakes of excrement. I’m crying…

The Robert Watson Literary Prize Story MANTIS

Daniel S.C. Sutter

Shaken as an infant, abandoned by my father, and squeezed through time and circumstance, I find myself some thirty-odd years later, here, retching onto a frosty hedgerow outside the town house I rent with my mother. I pull myself into focus, and my stomach feels stretched and snapped like a surgeon’s glove. This is coastal Florida. Our row of homes sits along the Gulf shore, but it’s freezing, so I pretend there’s snow and tilt my head to catch an imaginary flake on the tongue…

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