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Nancy Naomi Carlson is an associate editor for Tupelo Press and an instructor at the Bethesda Writer's Center. Her collection of poetry, Kings Highway, won the Washington Writers' Publishing [...]

Sand and straw live gently, soften the fall of wine. They gather quills from dovecotes. Theirs is the gullet’s greedy tongue. They slow bare toes of girls, and pierce their chrysalids. [...]

September 3, 1939 The oriole breached dawn’s capital town. The sword of his song closed the cheerless bed. All forever came to an end.

All day long, side by side with the man, the iron forced its torso against the flaming mud of the forge. In the end, their twinned muscles unearthed the thin night of metal, bursting free. The [...]