Rows of pinned husks hang/
from hooks, like tools or stolen bones./
But something flops at the base.
Author
-
Donna Coffey Little is a Professor of English at Reinhardt University and the founder and Assistant Director of Reinhardt’s Etowah Valley Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing. She is also the Director of the George Scarbrough Center for Southern and Appalachian Literature at Reinhardt. Her creative nonfiction essays, poems, and scholarly articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Five Points, StorySouth, Tiferet, Georgia Backroads, Calyx, The Atlanta Review, The Florida Review, Women’s Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, and Contemporary Women’s Writing. Her chapbook Fire Street was published by Finishing Line Press.