Thomas Macfie

April Fragment


A guilt at brim with

yet the unifying water 

table this single shore 

of earth and of speech 

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Edge-of-Water: Nameless Spring, Sewanee, TN 

How small do we have to be 

to be so often? A green chunter we 

bunk with deplorables 

too the tiger frogs head 

band belch by permeable kvetch 

the reservoir folks are at best 

stretched to listening with

water the limestone’s supposed

to filter certain impurities 

but here we are 

again one of us doubles back 

to ride his dirt bike 

over the shell of a box turtle— 

So its already over now, crumpled  

O 

so its already done. 

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Thomas Macfie is from Sewanee, TN, where he currently lives. He studied at Flathead Valley Community College and the University of Montana. Some of his writing can be found at COAST|noCoast, Diagram, Fence, and The Nashville Scene, and some of his music can be heard at wetbar.bandcamp.com.