Yesteryear Fiction

The Bindletooth
By JD DeHart


The elongated face remembered
from some distant place,
a sphere we visited once,
the translucent skin, the invitation
calling to us through the wooded
star-gazing plain, and the tone
cold as malice, swift as the end.


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JD DeHart is a writer and teacher. His first chapbook, The Truth About Snails, is due Fall 2014.