D. James Smith is a novelist and poet, whose books include My Brother’s Passion (2004), Fast Company (1999), and Prayers For The Dead (1995). He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and [...]
Come the blue dusk they are a chattering city above you. In the branches of a spruce, their shrill cries like thin strips of tin, chaffing, metal on metal, wordless and ancient. Your arms, which [...]