The stakes grunted beneath his old mallet, slowly marking off another spring garden. But it’s winter now and there’s his oldest tossing each soil-browned stake aside before turning to the shed, a huge tarp and chainlink improvisation like some low burial mound only he could enter upright, bent over as he already was. He would … Continue reading The Old Man’s Shed
by Tim Miller
The sound of them woke me in the morning, feet kicking up careful spirals of leaves and lean, low voices under my window. All the way to the woods there’s a line of them, a missing boy overnight their care won’t solve: the world is too small to search all of it. I find one … Continue reading Missing Child
by Tim Miller
Tim Miller’s most recent book is the long narrative poem, To the House of the Sun (S4N Books). His other fiction and poetry have appeared in Londongrip, Poethead, The Journal (Wales), The Basil O’Flaherty, The High Window, and others. He writes about poetry, history and religion at www.wordandsilence.com
