BIRDLAND JOURNAL

Celebrating Northern California Voices

June 1, 2016
by sharon@savorsmith.com
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Room
by Priscilla Jane

Returning to you, heart Collapsing with relief: You are the same. Nightly. Reliably contained. Fenced in, your comfort. Isolate me. Confine me. Hold my heart, hide my body. Meticulous. Designed. Expressionless. Within: A sing, a dance. Curse + flirt + … Continue reading

June 1, 2016
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Waiting
by Ann Kim

“Hey, that’s a bad word,” my niece shouts. She’s seven and smart already a good reader, but the car is moving fast, and the sign passes in a blur. I pretend I don’t hear

June 1, 2016
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Backstreets
by Katie Cofer

The room was still veiled in semi-darkness, but a rod of light fell through the crack between the heavy green shutters and onto the faux satin of her bedspread, a messenger of the heat

June 1, 2016
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Dolphins
by Dani Cirignano

He pulls over on a quieter stretch of PCH, right south of downtown Laguna—past the bustling crosswalks full of eager tourists, past the shirtless, brown men playing a game of pickup basketball, their white counterparts nearby punching