When the Devil’s in Nashville
he stops by Third and Union, late,
Elizabeth R. McClellan
Elizabeth R. McClellan is a poet, editor, lawyer, and occasional loudmouth who lives in the geographic center of the State of Tennessee and thus considers the whole state her backyard. She is a previous Rhysling Award nominee, winner of the Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors Award, and was the 2014 Rhysling Chair. Her work has appeared in the Moment of Change and I Know What I Saw anthologies, as well as Apex Magazine, Calliope Magazine, Goblin Fruit, The Legendary, NewMyths.com, and Stone Telling. For more about Elizabeth follow her on Twitter at @popelizbet or visit www.elizabethrmcclellan.com.
Down Cycles
In the enrichment center it is like war
The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of John: Six Cantos
The Devil is a good old boy at heart
who wishes sometimes he knew how to live right
but just can’t stay off the stuff
of this world long enough to get saved.
Anything So Utterly Destroyed
What would have been my right hand—
delicate fingers discolored a bit,
a ghost of a ring, a seam at the wrist—