Alisa Golden

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Plum tree
cut to the quick
swarming with termites

I regret
complaining about
sticky sidewalks

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Alisa Golden writes and makes art in a one-square-mile, California city. She is editor of Star 82 Review, author of Making Handmade Books, and her stories and poems have been published in Blink-Ink, Nanoism, and Litro, among others. www.neverbook.com