Michael Cadnum

Poet and Novelist

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Latest from Ellen Datlow.

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But Venice was a disappointment. He saw a man with one arm eating fried squid…

Raymond Carver, The Compartment

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She said she would come!
How yellow are these lilies!
How white is this sand!

Richard Wright, This Other World 4.28.18

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Breath by breath teach me
your beautiful language,
promise, where is, to you

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At last again the cats are seated at the table ready for their Valentine tea

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Suddenly.

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I have short fiction coming soon in this issue.

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I’m proud to be a writing coach at De Anza High’s College Is for Real.

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I bury rifles and handguns like rootstock out by the creek, and walnut saplings stand up from the soil, and maple, and cherry among the wild willows.

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No kings

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I’m admiring Connie Field’s newest film Democracy Noir—an exposé of the Victor Orban Hungary

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I knock on the door. No one home. She lets me in.

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Love and blood, the raven knows both gods.

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This is the morning summer arrives, mist that never falls. The cat calls to me and calls to me again. She wants me to watch her eat.

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He was missing her silence.

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I’m still very much enjoying Time to Hydrate Dr Sibyl Baladi’s persuasive and warm-hearted book about the importance of water.

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He scratched out the grocery list except for bitter chocolate and English gin. #tariff

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Why does Trump think he controls the Library of Congress?